“There was a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur… — 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
“Jobs could be charming to people he hated just as easily as he could be insulting to people he liked.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“So Jobs and his team became excited about the prospect of building a phone that they would want to use. “That’s the… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“By 2001 Apple had revived its personal computer offerings. It was now time to think different. A set of new possibilities topped… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“A few days after he unveiled the iPad in January 2010, Jobs held a “town hall” meeting with employees at Apple’s campus.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Met Jobs at Atari, became first partner with Jobs and Wozniak at fledgling Apple, but unwisely decided to forgo his equity stake.” — 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
I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Wozniak would be the gentle wizard coming up with a neat invention that he would have been happy just to give away,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“as to the current or future directions of Apple’s product designs, nor do other design firms we might deal with, so it… — 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
“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
“Steve created the only lifestyle brand in the tech industry,” Larry Ellison said. “There are cars people are proud to have—Porsche, Ferrari,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The iMac went on sale in August 1998 for $1,299. It sold 278,000 units in its first six weeks, and would sell… — 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
“The key venue for freewheeling discourse was the Monday morning executive team gathering, which started at 9 and went for three or… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Jobs liked to tell the story- and he did so to his team that day- about how everything that he had done… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The unified field theory that ties together Jobs personality and products begins with his most salient trait: his intensity. His silences could… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The thing that struck me was his intensity. Whatever he was interested in he would generally carry to an irrational extreme." Jobs… — 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
“The day that Levy got his press preview of the iPod, he happened to be meeting Bill Gates at a dinner, and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Jobs also used the meetings to enforce focus. At Robert Friedland's farm, his job had been to prune the apple trees so… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“When it came time to announce the price of the new machine, Jobs did what he would often do in product demonstrations:… — 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… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“looking for people to design the graphical interface for Apple’s new operating system, Jobs got an email from a young man and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Still allergic to PowerPoints and formal presentations, he insisted that the people around the table hash out issues from various vantages and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Then, unexpectedly, he phoned me late on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve 2009. He was at home in Palo Alto with… — 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… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Yet Jobs knew that he could manipulate Sculley by encouraging his belief that they were so alike. And the more he manipulated… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“In other words, the idea for the iPad actually came before, and helped to shape, the birth of the iPhone. ” — 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
“Sculley began to believe that Jobs’s mercurial personality and erratic treatment of people were rooted deep in his psychological makeup, perhaps the… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Every time I’d design something great, Steve would find a way to make money for us,” said Wozniak.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
You and I love understanding American Revolution, but let's also understand the digital revolution, because that makes us more comfortable with our… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Most of the collaborations of technology were done by teams...Collaboration is key to creativity — 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 think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning,… — 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
