“Leonardo at twenty-nine was more easily distracted by the future than he was focused on the present.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it” and “People who are serious about software should make their own… — 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
Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Time cannot be absolutely defined, and there is an inseparable relation between time and signal velocity.” More” — 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
“We spoke about furniture in theory for eight years,” recalled Powell. “We spent a lot of time asking ourselves, ‘What is 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
I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Especially right after 9/11. Especially when the war in Afghanistan is going on. There was a real sense that you don't get… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future. " If anybody was… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“There would be times when we'd rack our brains on a user interface problem, and think we'd considered every option, and he… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“That Tuesday afternoon, he kept staring into his children’s eyes. At one point he looked at Patty and his children for a… — 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
“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
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much.… — 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
“Hume applied his skeptical rigor to the concept of time. It made no sense, he said, to speak of time as having… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical. He… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Look longer at the picture. It vibrates with Leonardo’s understanding that no moment is discrete, self-contained, frozen, delineated, just as no boundary… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“This is also, I hope, a book about innovation. At a time when the United States is seeking ways to sustain its… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Instead, this time he made what he called a “slight modification” to his theory. To keep the matter in the universe from… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“But for the time being the personality clashes were manageable, mainly because the company was doing so well.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“But I did learn from Leonardo how a desire to marvel about the world that we encounter each day can make each… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Woz spent a lot of time at home reading his father’s electronics journals, and he became enthralled by stories about new computers,” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Steve and I spent a lot of time on the packaging," said Ive. " I love the process of unpacking something. You… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Although Jobs later said that he was not plotting to take over Apple at the time, Ellison thought it was inevitable. "… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. “There is no one better at turning off… — 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
I think Leonardo da Vinci teaches us the value of both being focused on things that fascinate us but also, at times,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Another time, he was playing [chess] with his equal, the Duchess of Bourbon, who made a move that inadvertently exposed her king.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The tongue of a woodpecker can extend more than three times the length of its bill. When not in use, it retracts… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“One way to understand that Einstein was talking about invariance, rather than declaring everything to be relative, is to think about how… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Was [Steve Jobs] smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“There are historical moments when an alignment of forces causes a shift in human outlook. It happened to art and philosophy and… — 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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