“It made it clear to me that Gates was not the kind of person that would understand or appreciate the elegance of… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“There was no CD tray, just a subtle slot. And as with the original Macintosh, there was no” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“the Macintosh lacked a fan, another example of Jobs’s dogmatic stubbornness. Fans, he felt, detracted from the calm of a computer. This… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“He told us to go back to the roots of the original 1984 Macintosh, an all-in-one consumer appliance,” recalled Schiller. “That meant… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter out distractions.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Atop the brochure McKenna put a maxim, often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, that would become the defining precept of Jobs’s design philosophy: “Simplicity… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“You have to remain critically vigilant.” Question every premise, challenge conventional wisdom, and never accept the truth of something merely because everyone else views… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s girlfriend at Homestead High,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“There was a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur each other… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“CEO Gil Amelio stumbled. Ellison may have been baffled when Jobs insisted that he was not motivated by money, but it was partly true.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Once a year Jobs took his most valuable employees on a retreat, which he called " The Top 100." They were picked based on… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“An object will display the greatest difference of light and shade when it is seen in the strongest light. . . . But this… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
