Quotes About Inspiration

focused, yet he dazzled and baffled colleagues by suddenly changing his mind when he realized he needed to think different.

It was an application of Markkula's admonition that it was

He didn't invent many things outright, but he was a master at putting together ideas, art, and technology in ways that invented the future. He

The front of the white lectern has a slight blue tinge, since it is lit mainly by the refracted light of the sky rather than the yellowish direct glow of the setting sun.59 "Shadows will vary," Leonardo explained in his notebooks. "The side of an object that receives a reflected light from the azure of the air will be tinged with that hue, and this is particularly observable in white objects. That side that receives the light from the sun will partake of that color.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away." Bono

A realm of intimate, personal power is developing—power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested

Who said your job was to think, spring-wiener?

Jobs took McCollum's class for only one year, rather than the three that it was offered. For one of his projects, he made a device

sometimes I don't. It's the great mystery." Paul Jobs was then working at Spectra-Physics, a company in nearby Santa Clara that made lasers for electronics and medical products. As a machinist, he crafted the prototypes of products that the engineers

Money is not the greatest of motivators," Torvalds said. "Folks do their best work when they are driven by passion.

The reason Apple resonates with people is that there's a deep current of humanity in our innovation.

It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

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.

He did it better because Steve had challenged him," said Atkinson

At the end of the presentation someone asked whether he thought they should do some market research to see what customers wanted. "No," he replied, "because customers don't know what they want until we've shown them.

It was then I realized that I do give a shit about Apple—I started it and it is a good thing to have in the world.

Marsalis later recalled, "I don't care much about computers, and kept telling him so, but he goes on for two hours. He was a man possessed. After a while, I started looking at him and not the computer, because I was so fascinated with his passion.

Hacer lo imposible es bastante divertido, declaró en una ocasión Walt Disney.

Picasso Good authors copy, great artists steal-Picassco

It's a testament to Isaacson's skill as a biographer that readers can at last obtain the picture of Steve Jobs as a human being rather than a legend . . . anyone who's ever wondered how so very much about the technology landscape has changed so fundamentally in just thirty-five years, owes it to themselves to read this book." —TUAW.com "Walter Isaacson's book is an unflinching biography of a manifestly

I wanted to buy it because I was really into computer graphics," Jobs recalled. "I realized they were way ahead of others in combining art and technology, which is what I've always been interested in.

Steve Jobs, Al Alcorn

I think you still have to think differently to buy an Apple computer," he said. "The people who buy them do think different. They are the creative spirits in this world, and they're out to change the world. We make tools for those kinds of people.

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