“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
“Leonardo at twenty-nine was more easily distracted by the future than he was focused on the present.” — 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
