Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying. — 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 don’t have any skeletons in my closet that can’t be allowed out.” — 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
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
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
“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
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
“In all of his products, technology would be married to great design, elegance, human touches and even romance.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“I want it to be as beautiful as possible, even if it's inside the box. A great carpenter isn't going to use… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Ever since Apple's first brochure proclaimed "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication," Jobs had aimed for the simplicity that comes from conquering complexities,… — 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
“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'd been very influenced by what I'd seen in Japan. Part of what I greatly admired there - and part of what… — 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
“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
“Jobs had begun to drop acid by then, and he turned Brennan on to it as well, in a wheat field just… — 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 return for speaking at the retreat, Jobs got Murdoch to hear him out on Fox News, which he believed was destructive,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“He also came to like the idea of having a uniform for himself, because of both its daily convenience (the rationale he… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Early on, Mike Markkula had taught Jobs to "impute" - to understand that people do judge a book by its cover -… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately his Zen training never quite produced in him a Zen-like calm or inner serenity, and that too is part of his… — 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
“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
“After the applause, he used the quotations book to make a more subtle point, about his reality distortion field. The quote he… — 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
“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
“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
“We made the iPod for ourselves, and when you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
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
“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
“Nevertheless, by dint of his personality and controlling instincts, Jobs was soon playing a stronger role. He spewed out a stream of… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Steve Jobs had a tendency to see things in a binary way: "A person was either a hero or a bozo, a… — 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
More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
By the end of his career, he [Steve Jobs] has proven that he can do the impossible, and he has gathered probably… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“In two days he saw Rupert Murdoch, his son James, and the management of their Wall Street Journal; Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Years later, on a Steve Jobs discussion board on the website Gawker, the following tale appeared from someone who had worked at… — 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
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