Quotes About Legacy

Shortly before she died in 2011, Jean Jennings Bartik reflected proudly on the fact that all the programmers who created the first general-purpose computer were women: "Despite our coming of age in an era when women's career opportunities were generally quite confined, we helped initiate the era of the computer.

Jobs's ambition was to build a company that would endure, and he asked Markkula what the formula for that would be. Markkula replied that lasting companies know how to reinvent themselves. Hewlett-Packard had done that repeatedly; it started as an instrument company, then became a calculator company, then a computer company.

in a way that Sony, which had all the assets and heritage, never could accomplish.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Thomas Carlyle afirmaba que «la historia del mundo no es sino la biografía de grandes hombres»

But on the other hand, perhaps it's like an on-off switch," he said. "Click! And you're gone." Then he paused again and smiled slightly. "Maybe that's why I never liked to put on-off switches on Apple devices.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?

Raskin died of pancreatic cancer in 2005, not long after Jobs was diagnosed with the disease.

ROBERT IGER. Succeeded Eisner as Disney CEO in 2005.

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

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

Thus did Ada, Countess of Lovelace, help sow the seeds for a digital age that would blossom a hundred years later.

You ought to kill Newton," he told Amelio one day by phone.

subrayaba que nunca se debía crear una empresa para hacerse rico. La meta debía ser producir algo en lo que creyeras y crear una compañía duradera».

una vida bien empleada trae una muerte feliz.»

Berners-Lee was born in 1955, the same year as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs

Sketches Einstein: His Life and Universe A Benjamin Franklin Reader Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Kissinger: A Biography The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (with Evan Thomas)

As a well-spent day brings a happy sleep," Leonardo had written thirty years earlier, "so a well-employed life brings a happy death.

The ability of Isaacson to write books that capture an age as well as a man makes him one of our best and most important biographers. Steve Jobs shows Isaacson at his best." —Foreign

It conjured up memories of what he sounded like when he was young, and how, as in his favorite Dylan song, he had remained forever young. "They push the human race forward

Laurene Powell, said bluntly, "If you're ever going to do a book on Steve, you'd better do it now." He had just taken a second

There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.

His argument was that a great engineer would be remembered only if he teamed with a great marketer, and this required him to commit his designs to the partnership.

innovative creativity that it would outlive them.