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The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he said. "The hierarchical…

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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…
Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of…
More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely…
I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?
In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels,…
I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he…
I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some…
I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and…
I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people…
We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me,…
Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being…

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