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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic…
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Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of…
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More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely…
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I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
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Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels,…
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I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he…
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I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some…
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While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is…
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Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.
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...secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right…
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"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.
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Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without…
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The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
— Catullus
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