Quotes from Walter Isaacson

La mejor manera de predecir el futuro es inventarlo.

In fact, neither explanation does Jobs and Apple justice. As the case of the forgotten Iowa inventor John Atanasoff shows, conception is just the first step. What really matters is execution. Jobs and his team took Xerox's ideas, improved them, implemented them, and marketed them.

sometimes tearing up at the memory, that once they were married

En lugares como IBM, que se especializa en mejoras cotidianas realizadas por equipos de ingenieros, esta es la forma preferida de entender cómo se produce realmente la innovación.

The most important technology for the region's growth was, of course, the semiconductor. William Shockley, who had been one

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Lightning bolts went off in my head," according to Jobs. "I remember running into the house, crying.

Case applied the two lessons he had learned at Procter & Gamble: make a product simple and launch it with free samples.

summer of 2004, I got a phone call from Steve Jobs.

Steve created the only lifestyle brand in the tech industry," Larry Ellison said.

Tim Cook When Steve Jobs returned to Apple and produced the "Think Different" ads and the iMac in his first year, it confirmed what most people already knew: that he could be creative and a visionary. He had shown that during his first round at Apple. What was less clear was whether he could run a company. He had definitely not shown that during his first round.

He was not a model boss or human being, tidily packaged for emulation. Driven by demons, he could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and passions and products were all interrelated, just as Apple's hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.

Let's Be Pirates!

simply said that the Apple team knew the capabilities of the Be OS and asked if they

Because a lot of people think they're crazy, but in that craziness we see genius.

One of Steve Wozniak's first memories was going to his father's workplace on a weekend and being shown electronic parts, with his dad "putting them on a table with me so I got to play with them.

Case said. "We thought community trumped content.

There's an old Hindu saying that goes, 'In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

If you need slides, it shows you don't know what you're talking about.

Machines such as these emerged in the 1950s, and during the subsequent thirty years there were two historic innovations that caused them to revolutionize how we live: microchips allowed computers to become small enough to be personal appliances, and packet-switched networks allowed them to be connected as nodes on a web.

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.

There was also the issue of his hygiene. He was still convinced, against all evidence, that his vegan diets meant that he didn't need to use a deodorant or take regular showers. "We would have to literally put him out the door and tell him to go take a shower," said Markkula. "At meetings we had to look at his dirty feet." Sometimes, to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet, a practice that was not as soothing for his colleagues.

as to the current or future directions of Apple's product designs, nor do other design firms we might deal with, so it is possible to inadvertently design similar looking products. It is in both Apple's and NeXT's best interest to rely on Hartmut