Not playing by the rules, not seeing things conventionally, that's the heart of who he [ Steve Jobs] is, and he does… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. Shakespeare’s Henry V—the story of a… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Steve Jobs chafed at not being in control, and he sometimes hallucinated or became angry. Even when he was barely conscious, his… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Steve Jobs thus became the greatest business executive of our era, the one most certain to be remembered a century from now.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“So [Steve Jobs] had the Pixar building designed to promote encounters and unplanned collaborations ... "to make people get out of their… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Walter Issacson biographer of Steve Jobs: I remember sitting in his backyard in his garden, one day, and he started talking about… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“He told her, somewhat emotionally, that he wished she could have seen him when he was managing a Mediterranean restaurant north of… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I am a fruitarian and I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight - Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs'… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Under Steve Jobs, there's zero tolerance for not performing," its CEO said. At another point, when VLSI Technology was having trouble delivering… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“In the early summer of 2004, I got a phone call from Steve Jobs. He had been scattershot friendly to me over… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Without Steve Jobs, you would have well-designed computers, probably open and not integrated, but they wouldn't have sex appeal, they wouldn't have… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“What was remarkable was that associating with a computer and electronics company was the best way for a rock band to seem… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I was on one of my fruitarian diets" Steve Jobs recalled "I had just comeback from the apple farm. It sounded fun,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“if you didn't voice your opinion, [Steve Jobs] would mow you down," said Cook. "He takes contrary positions to create more discussion,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Tim Cook When Steve Jobs returned to Apple and produced the “Think Different” ads and the iMac in his first year, it… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“REINHOLD JOBS. Wisconsin-born Coast Guard seaman who, with his wife, Clara, adopted Steve in 1955. REED JOBS. Oldest child of Steve Jobs… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“I was voluntarily poor when I was in college and India, and I lived a pretty simple life when I was working.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company. The whole notion of how you… — 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
