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Quotes About Innovation

Just as bacteria have spent millennia evolving ways to develop immunity to viruses, perhaps we humans should use our ingenuity to do the same.
~ Walter Isaacson
Innovation requires a reality distortion field.
~ Walter Isaacson
One was how computers could be networked; the second was how object-oriented programming worked.
~ Walter Isaacson
If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will
~ Walter Isaacson
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.
~ Walter Isaacson
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
~ Walter Isaacson
the true birth of the digital age, the era in which electronic devices became embedded in every aspect of our lives, occurred in Murray Hill, New Jersey, shortly after lunchtime on Tuesday, December 16, 1947.
~ Walter Isaacson
released that year, and the following year Apple's purchase of NeXT offered him reentry into the company he had founded.
~ Walter Isaacson
innovación. Creo que los grandes artistas y los grandes ingenieros se parecen, porque ambos sienten el deseo de expresarse.
~ Walter Isaacson
Steve Jobs has designed a powerful computer that an illiterate six-year-old can use without instruction," Noer wrote. "If that isn't magical, I don't know what is.
~ Walter Isaacson
La mejor forma de predecir el futuro es inventarlo
~ Walter Isaacson
Don't worry about people stealing an idea," he once told a student. "If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
~ Walter Isaacson
Quieres pasarte el resto de tu vida vendiendo agua azucarada o quieres una oportunidad para cambiar el mundo?
~ Walter Isaacson
ocupó el puesto de directora técnica y coordinó la creación de COBOL, el primer lenguaje de programación empresarial, multiplataforma y estandarizado.
~ Walter Isaacson
sure to become mandatory reading for anyone with an interest in big business and popular culture . . . Isaacson is to be commended for explaining the genius of Jobs in fascinating fashion, launching a discussion that could reach infinity and beyond.
~ Walter Isaacson
Well, it's a start," Jobs said, "but basically, it stinks. The background color is too dark, some lines
~ Walter Isaacson
modern life in the information age as about its supernaturally gifted and driven subject … In the end, we can't help but agree with Isaacson's assessment: "Was
~ Walter Isaacson
summer of 2004, I got a phone call from Steve Jobs. He had been scattershot friendly to me over the years, with occasional bursts of intensity, especially when he was launching a new product
~ Walter Isaacson
Isaacson's vivid and beautifully executed book unveils Jobs's creative process' Murad Ahmed
~ Walter Isaacson
Think Different" campaign, featuring iconic photos of some of the same people we were considering, and he found the endeavor of assessing historic influence fascinating.
~ Walter Isaacson
Thus was born the iPod, the device that would begin the transformation of Apple from being a computer maker into being the world's most valuable company.
~ Walter Isaacson
que el hardware se convertiría en una mercancía más y que sería en la programación donde radicaría el verdadero valor. Hasta la irrupción de Bill Gates, esta idea se les escapaba a la mayoría de los hombres.
~ Walter Isaacson
NASA was able to send a man to the moon. Engineers in Silicon Valley were able to devise a way to put a programmable computer on a chip called a microprocessor. And ARPA created a network that could connect distant computers.
~ Walter Isaacson
pep talk just after he became iCEO in September 1997, sitting in the audience was a sensitive and passionate thirty-year-old Brit who was head of the
~ Walter Isaacson