“Jobs had always been an extremely opinionated eater, with a tendency to instantly judge any food as either fantastic or terrible. He… — 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
“Jobs and Clow agreed that Apple was one of the great brands of the world, probably in the top five based on… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Jobs obsessed over every aspect of the new building, from the overall concept to the tiniest detail regarding materials and construction. "Steve… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“More than anyone else of his time, he made products that were completely innovative, combining the power of poetry and processors. With… — 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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