Quotes from Walter Isaacson

If Apple is going to succeed, he told me, we're going to win on innovation. And you can't win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate to customers.

Throughout his career, Jobs liked to see himself as an enlightened rebel pitted against evil empires, a Jedi warrior or Buddhist samurai fighting the forces of darkness. IBM was his perfect foil. He cleverly cast the upcoming battle not as a mere business competition

Ingenuity without wisdom is dangerous.

Caring deeply about someone who seemed incapable of caring was a particular kind of hell that she wouldn't wish on anyone, she said.

His plan incorporated the packet-switching concept of Paul Baran and Donald Davies, the suggestion for standardized IMPs proposed by Wes Clark, the theoretical insights of J. C. R. Licklider, Les Earnest, and Leonard Kleinrock, and the contributions of many other inventors.

Just as bacteria have spent millennia evolving ways to develop immunity to viruses, perhaps we humans should use our ingenuity to do the same.

Torvalds explained. "When people trust you, they take your advice." He also realized that leaders in a voluntary collaborative have to encourage others to follow their passion, not boss them around. "The best and most effective way to lead is by letting people do things because they want to do them, not because you want them to.

Para Leonardo, haber nacido fuera del matrimonio propició que no tuviera que ser enviado a una de las «escuelas de latín» que enseñaban los clásicos y las humanidades a los aspirantes a profesionales y a los comerciantes del Quattrocento.

Innovation requires a reality distortion field.

En otros movimientos de los labios participan músculos distintos, como los «que llevan los labios a un punto; otros que los aplastan, otros que los vuelven hacia atrás; otros que los enderezan; otros que los tuercen y otros, al final, que los devuelven a su primera posición».

Following the lead of other phone phreaks such as Captain Crunch, they gave themselves handles. Wozniak became "Berkeley Blue," Jobs was "Oaf Tobark.

from Morgan Stanley, which was a pretty uptight firm in those days," recalled

Using Hollerith's tabulators, the 1890 census was completed in one year rather than eight. It was the first major use of electrical circuits to process information, and the company that Hollerith founded became in 1924, after a series of mergers and acquisitions, the International Business Machines Corporation, or IBM.

There was another reason that Joanne was balky about signing the adoption papers. Her father was about to die, and she planned to marry Jandali soon after. She held out hope, she would later tell family members, sometimes tearing up at the memory, that once they were married, she could get their baby boy back.

Steve created the only lifestyle brand in the tech industry," Larry Ellison said. "There are cars people are proud to have—Porsche, Ferrari, Prius—because what I drive says something about me. People feel the same way about an Apple product.

One was how computers could be networked; the second was how object-oriented programming worked.

If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will

Grossman correctly noted that the iPhone did not really invent many new features, it just made these features a lot more usable. "But that's important. When our tools don't work, we tend to blame ourselves, for being too stupid or not reading the manual or having too-fat fingers. . . . When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.

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Then I would explain, it was no use trying to learn math unless they could communicate it with other people."4

Lasseter, August 1997: His cherubic face and demeanor masked an artistic perfectionism

The trouble with Oppenheimer is that he loves a woman who doesn't love him—the United States government," Einstein said.

Every month or so, Manock and Oyama would present a new iteration based on Jobs's previous criticisms. The latest plaster model would be dramatically unveiled

Leonardo remains weird, matchlessly weird, and nothing to be done about it.