Computers Quote by Walter Isaacson

“Yet Jobs knew that he could manipulate Sculley by encouraging his belief that they were so alike. And the more he manipulated Sculley, the…

— Walter Isaacson

“Jobs’s overwrought reaction was understandable. Sculley had once been a father figure to him. So had Mike Markkula. So had Arthur Rock. That week…

— Walter Isaacson

“Steve's head dropped and stared at his feet. After a weighty, uncomfortable pause, he issued a challenge that would haunt me for days. "…

— Walter Isaacson

“Sculley began to believe that Jobs’s mercurial personality and erratic treatment of people were rooted deep in his psychological makeup, perhaps the reflection of…

— Walter Isaacson

Jobs did not know that Sculley had told Eisenstat he wanted to quit, but by then it didn't matter. Overnight, he had changed his…

— Walter Isaacson

“Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs.”

— John Kennedy Toole

Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than…

— Alex Gibney

“Jobs was a strong-willed, elitist artist who didn't want his creations mutated inauspiciously by unworthy programmers. To him it would be as if someone…

— Walter Isaacson

“The thing that struck me was his intensity. Whatever he was interested in he would generally carry to an irrational extreme." Jobs had honed…

— Walter Isaacson

“He looked like an accountant or a serial-killer type. Definitely one of the service industries.”

— Kinky Friedman

“It was more that he did better being busy, keeping to a routine. It helped hold the black dogs of thought at bay. Also…

— Ellen Airgood

“He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have…

— Marcel Proust