Quotes from Walter Isaacson

Take a note of them with slight strokes in a little book which you should always carry with you," he wrote. "The positions of the people are so infinite that the memory is incapable of retaining them, which is why you should keep these sketches as your guides." 22

Leonardo fue pionero en un nuevo estilo que trataba los cuadros narrativos, e incluso los retratos, como explicaciones psicológicas.

If something isn't right, you can't just ignore it and say you'll fix it later," he said. "That's what other companies do.

Detesto que la gente recurra a las presentaciones de diapositivas en lugar de pensar - recordaba Jobs -. La gente se enfrentaba a los problemas creando una presentación. Yo quería que se comprometieran, que discutieran los temas sentados a una mesa, en lugar de mostrarme un puñado de diapositivas. La gente que sabe de lo que está hablando no necesita Powerpoint

The satisfaction of getting paid and saving up for something, that was very exciting.

But for the time being the personality clashes were manageable, mainly because the company was doing so well.

told me, that the Apple logo was an homage to Alan Turing, the British computer pioneer who broke the

It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough. We believe that it's technology married with the humanities that yields us the result that makes our heart sing.

Man is very capable of imagining infinite happiness, and he should be able to grasp the infinity of space—I

The best way to predict the future is to invent it

the greatest innovation would come not from the people who created the breakthroughs but from the people who applied them usefully.

El día en que presentó el Macintosh, un periodista de Popular Science le preguntó a Jobs qué tipo de investigación de mercados había llevado a cabo. A lo cual Jobs respondió, burlón: «¿Acaso Alexander Graham Bell realizó un estudio de mercado antes de inventar el teléfono?».

A left-hander, Leonardo wrote from right to left on a page

stereo system with MartinLogan speakers

survey of all that Jobs accomplished, replete with the passion and excitement that it deserves … Sceptic after sceptic made the mistake of underrating Steve Jobs, but he got the last laugh every time. This book makes it all

Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation.

Woz's father taught him something else that became ingrained in his childlike, socially awkward personality: Never lie. "My dad believed in honesty. Extreme honesty. That's the biggest thing he taught me. I never lie, even to this day." (The only partial exception was in the service of a good practical joke.)

You Say You Want a Revolution: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Phil Schiller, Tim Cook, Jony Ive, Tony Fadell, Paul Otellini. All Things

What made Leonardo a genius, what set him apart from people who are merely extraordinarily smart, was creativity, the ability to apply imagination to intellect. His facility for combining observation with fantasy allowed him, like other creative geniuses, to make unexpected leaps that related things seen to things unseen. "Talent hits a target that no one else can hit," wrote the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. "Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's?

forced to realise that Jobs was, for all his visionary genius, deeply flawed, odd and capricious …' Davin O'Dwyer, Irish Times 'This is an authorised but brutally honest account of the life of a legend of our age' Herald Sun 'Isaacson has done an outstanding

Ethernet, the technologies developed by Bob Metcalfe

McCarthy's vision was prescient, but it differed in one major way from Kay's vision, and from the networked world that we have today. It was not based on personal computers with their own memory and processing power.

Europe in the fifteenth century and become such a nuisance in Milan that they were banished by a decree in 1493. In his notebooks, Leonardo mentioned a portrayal of a gypsy in a list of his drawings, and he also recorded spending 6 soldi for a fortune-teller. All of this is speculative, and that is one of the many things that make Leonardo's works, including those with a bit of mystery, so wonderful: his fantasia is infectious.