Quotes from Walter Isaacson

ROBERT IGER. Succeeded Eisner as Disney CEO in 2005.

landed after fleeing the Turks in Armenia, and they moved to the Mission District of San Francisco when she was a child. She had a secret that she rarely mentioned to anyone: She had been married before, but her husband had been killed in the war. So when she met Paul Jobs

It was as if something in the animal's body and in its brain had been engineered to work together instantly rather than being learned.

published one on Benjamin Franklin and was writing one about Albert Einstein, and my initial reaction

his dad "putting them on a table with me so I got to play with them." He watched with fascination as his father tried to get a waveform line on

Okay, tell me what's wrong with this place," he said. There were some murmurings, but Jobs cut them off. "It's the products!" he answered. "So what's wrong with the products?" Again there were a few attempts at an answer, until Jobs broke in to hand down the correct answer. "The products suck!" he shouted. "There's no sex in them anymore!

Steve Jobs's attitude toward wealth was complex. He was an antimaterialistic hippie who capitalized on the inventions of a friend who wanted to give them away for free, and he was a Zen devotee who made a pilgrimage to India and then decided that his calling was to create a business. And yet somehow these attitudes seemed to weave together rather than conflict.

most of the innovations of the digital age were done collaboratively.

But we have far fewer tales of collaborative creativity, which is actually more important in understanding how today's technology revolution was fashioned.

No, that's not right," Ferris replied. "The lines should be voluptuous, like a Ferrari.

Baby You're a Rich Man Before and after he was rich, and indeed throughout a life that included being both broke and a billionaire, Steve Jobs's attitude toward wealth was complex. He was an antimaterialistic hippie who capitalized on the inventions of a friend who wanted to give them

A good painter has two chief objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul; the former is easy, the latter hard, because he has to represent it by the attitudes and movements of the limbs…The most important consideration in painting is that the movements of each figure expresses its mental state, such as desire, scorn, anger, pity, and the like. - quoted from Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks

home so exhausted that he could barely speak. "That's probably when this cancer started growing, because my immune system was pretty weak at that time," he said. It is unclear whether exhaustion or a weak immune system could have caused his cancer. However, his kidney problems

Jobs was blown away by bitmapping. "It was like a veil being lifted from my eyes," he recalled. "I could see what the future of computing was destined to be.

So if you don't feel comfortable disagreeing, then you'll never survive.

But Jobs was the first to become obsessed with the idea of incorporating PARC's interface ideas into a simple, inexpensive, personal computer. Once again, the greatest innovation would come not from the people who created the breakthroughs but from the people who applied them usefully. On

the future might belong to people who can best partner and collaborate with computers.

The classic account of the Americans who rebuilt the world after the destruction of World War II.

Power to the people was a romantic lie," he later said. "Computers did more than politics did to change society.

Leonardo refuted this by arguing that painting is not only an art but also a science. In order to convey three-dimensional objects on a flat surface, the painter needs to understand perspective and optics. These are sciences that are grounded in mathematics. Therefore, painting is a creation of the intellect as well as the hands.

The two great Semitic peoples," he said, "have a great common future." If the Jews did not assure that both sides lived in harmony, he warned friends in the Zionist movement, the struggle would haunt them in decades to come.78 Once again, he was labeled naïve.

He was particularly good at apprehending movement, from the motions of a flapping wing to the emotions flickering across a face.

The Internet and the personal computer were both born in the 1970s, but they grew up apart from one another.

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