Quotes from Walter Isaacson

Great inventions come from understanding basic science. Nature is beautiful that way.

Like many entrepreneurs, Bushnell had no shame about distorting reality in order to motivate people.

People will provide judgment, intuition, empathy, a moral compass, and human creativity.

The year before, 279,000 Apple IIs were sold, compared to 240,000 IBM PCs and its clones.

Jobs put his hand on Ellison's left shoulder, pulled him so close that their noses almost touched, and said, Larry, this is why it's really important that I'm your friend. You don't need any more money.

service, which would relay messages to his mother. Ron Wayne drew a logo, using the ornate line-drawing style of Victorian illustrated fiction, that featured Newton sitting under a tree framed by a quote from Wordsworth: "A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone." It was a rather odd motto, one that fit Wayne's self-image more than Apple Computer. Perhaps

Bushnell agreed. "There is something indefinable in an entrepreneur, and I saw that in Steve," he said. "He was interested not just in engineering, but also the business aspects. I taught him that if you act like you can do something, then it will work. I told him, 'Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.

By 2001 Apple had revived its personal computer offerings. It was now time to think different. A set of new possibilities topped the what-next list on his whiteboard that year.

I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft.

He has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. For us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubborn illusion.

The attitude we adopt toward the Arab minority will provide the real test of our moral standards as a people

Blink your eye and look at it again. That which you see was not there at first, and that which was there is no more.

Bob Metcalfe created a way to use coaxial cable (the type that plugs into cable TV boxes) to create a high-bandwidth system that he named "Ethernet.

Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been the chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, and Kissinger: A Biography, and is the coauthor, with Evan Thomas, of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He and his wife live in Washington

Macintosh." Jobs, clean-shaven and bouncy, gave a toothy smile and asked

El viaje es la recompensa

De hecho, se estableció una relación simbiótica entre la aparición de la radio de transistores y la irrupción del rock and roll. La primera grabación comercial de Elvis Presley, «That's All Right», salió a la venta al mismo tiempo que la radio Regency.

The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year

visionario pasó a ser un alucinado, lo que lo convirtió en un caso práctico de mal liderazgo.

During one maddening session, Kay, whose thoughts often seemed tailored to go directly from his tongue to wikiquotes, shot back a line that was to become PARC's creed: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."60

office as Jobs arrived. He looked "rather like a boxer

La naturaleza adora la sencillez y la unidad.

There was never a good knife made of bad steel 

My head had been shaved, I was wearing Indian cotton robes, and my skin had turned a deep, chocolate brown-red from the sun," he recalled. "So I'm sitting there and my parents walked past me about five times and finally my mother came up and said 'Steve?' and I said 'Hi!