Quotes from Walter Isaacson

Apple was destined to be: poetry connected to engineering, arts and creativity intersecting with technology, design that's bold and simple.

Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!' " People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on

While the men and various dignitaries celebrated, Jennings and Snyder made their way home alone through a very cold February night.

Clara, however, loved San Francisco, and in 1952 she convinced her husband to move back there.

We need to be the company that manages your relationship with the cloud—streams your music and videos from the cloud, stores your pictures and information, and maybe even your medical data.

Buddhist days was that material possessions often cluttered life rather than enriched it.

the biggest way to deliver an effect to the world is not by writing a paper but by taking technology you believe in and making something of it.

En los primeros treinta años de tu vida, tú defines tus hábitos. Durante los últimos treinta, tus hábitos te definen a ti".

I love it when you can bring really great design and simple capability to something that doesn't cost much," he said as he pointed out the clean elegance of the houses. "It was the original vision for Apple. That's what we tried to do with the first Mac. That's what we did with the iPod.

people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones

Once she calmed down, she told Jobs that he had a full sister, Mona Simpson, who was then an aspiring novelist

Only in the eleventh paragraph, at the end, did he add that he was also an artist. "Likewise in painting, I can do everything possible," he wrote.

Los artistas buenos copian y los artistas geniales roban"

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers.

McCollum believed in military

It's rare that you see an artist in his thirties or forties able to really contribute something amazing," Jobs declared as he was about to turn thirty.

Web directories, which featured human-assembled lists and categories of cool sites, and Web rings, which created through a common navigation bar a circle of related sites that were linked to one another.

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Jobs later said that he never read the novel. "I heard it was about me," he told me, "and if it was about me, I would have gotten really pissed off, and I didn't want to get pissed at my sister, so I didn't read

Although he was neither fully original nor correct in his description of a senso comune, he was right in his general view that the human brain receives visual and other stimuli, processes them into perceptions, then transmits reactions through the nervous system to the muscles. More important, his fascination with the connection between the mind and the body became a key component of his artistic genius: showing how inner emotions are manifest in outward gestures.

States is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build creative digital-age economies, Jobs

In 1981 Lawrence Landweber at the University of Wisconsin pulled together a consortium of universities that were not connected to the ARPANET to create another network based on TCP/IP protocols, which was called CSNET.

At age twelve, when he got a summer job at Hewlett-Packard, he learned that a properly run company could spawn innovation far more than any single creative individual. "I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company

É claro que existiram muitos outros polímatas insaciáveis, e a própria Renascença produziu outros Homens da Renascença. Contudo, nenhum deles pintou a Mona Lisa.