Quotes from Walter Isaacson

The iMac went on sale in August 1998 for $1,299. It sold 278,000 units in its first six weeks, and would sell 800,000 by the end of the year, making it the fastest-selling computer in Apple history.

he was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to cajole and distort reality with the power of his personality.

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For a scientist, altering your doctrines when the facts change is not a sign of weakness.

The Apple Marketing Philosophy

Every reasonable person must strive to promote moderation and a more objective judgment.

shared a bond: Lewin had written a Princeton thesis

I did learn from Leonardo how a desire to marvel about the world that we encounter each day can make each moment of our lives richer.

The roots of the personal computer can be found in the Free Speech Movement that arose at Berkeley in 1964 and in the Whole Earth Catalog, which did the marketing for the do-it-yourself ideals behind the personal computer movement.

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The company began attracting influential new investors.

have helped me make corrections or clear a few things up. And as always, I am most deeply indebted to my wife, Cathy, for her editing, suggestions, wise counsel, and so very much more.

Jobs quoted Picasso: "Good artists copy, great artists steal." He added, "And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

It was a self-fulfilling distortion," she claimed. "You did the impossible, because you didn't realize it was impossible.

Physicists are not used to trimming or compromising their equations in order to get them accepted. Which is why they do not make good politicians. At

the British computer pioneer who broke the German wartime codes and then committed suicide by biting into a cyanide-

The computer will never be as important to society as the copier."73

Jobs had perfected the art of turning product launches into theatrical productions

By this point Jobs had poured close to $50 million of his own money into Pixar—more than half of what he had pocketed when he cashed out of Apple—and he was still losing money at NeXT. He was hard-nosed about it; he forced all Pixar employees to give up their options as part of his agreement to add another round of personal funding in 1991. But he was also a romantic in his love for what artistry and technology could do together.

read it." But later that fall he seemed to have second thoughts about cooperating and, though I didn't know it, was hit

Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life."27

Conserve la capacidad de asombro de un niño.

Then, unexpectedly, he phoned me late on the afternoon of New Year's Eve 2009. He was at home in Palo Alto with only his

producing technology requires intuition and creativity, and how producing something artistic takes real discipline. Jobs