"Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software……" — Walter Isaacson
"Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell."
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84 Quotes by Walter Isaacson
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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…
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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…
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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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I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom…
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I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least…
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I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents'…
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I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just…
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We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and…
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward…
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But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news,…
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Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
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I think the only reason you visit an Apple store is because you wonder what life is like on another…
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I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have…
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.
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Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.
— Richard Hamming
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It's like apples and oranges, you can't compare it. It was just a matter of playing anyone who was breathing.
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