Quotes About Inspiration

Half-formed ideas, they float around. They come from different places, and the mind has got this wonderful way of somehow just shoveling them around until one day they fit. They may fit not so well, and then we go for a bike ride or something, and it's better."12

It's also a narrative of how they collaborated and why their ability to work as teams made them even more creative.

The astronomer Johannes Kepler declared that "nature loves simplicity and unity." So did Steve Jobs.

It should not be hard for you to look at stains on walls, or the ashes of a fire, or the clouds, or mud, and if you consider them well you will find marvelous new ideas, because the mind is stimulated to new inventions by obscure things.9

Having a healthy disregard for the impossible

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

Las personas lo suficientemente locas como para pensar que pueden cambiar el mundo son las que lo cambian. (Anuncio Piensa diferente de Apple, 1997)

Kilby displayed his awshucks humility. "When I hear that kind of thing," he responded, "it reminds me of what the beaver told the rabbit as they stood at the base of Hoover Dam: 'No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of mine.

his thirties or forties able to really contribute something amazing," Jobs declared as he was about to turn thirty. That held true for Jobs in his thirties, during the decade that began with his ouster from Apple in 1985. But after turning forty in 1995, he flourished.

ought to go ahead and do it," he said. He argued that if he joined Apple full-time, he would not have to go into management or give up being an engineer. "That was exactly what I needed to hear," Wozniak later said. "I could stay at the bottom of the organization chart

to itself." Jobs went home early that day to mull over the problem, then called Ive

One person who encouraged the denizens of the counterculture

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

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Okay, tell me what's wrong with this place," he said. There were some murmurings, but Jobs cut them off. "It's the products!" he answered. "So what's wrong with the products?" Again there were a few attempts at an answer, until Jobs broke in to hand down the correct answer. "The products suck!" he shouted. "There's no sex in them anymore!

But we have far fewer tales of collaborative creativity, which is actually more important in understanding how today's technology revolution was fashioned.

Jobs was blown away by bitmapping. "It was like a veil being lifted from my eyes," he recalled. "I could see what the future of computing was destined to be.

Lightning bolts went off in my head," according to Jobs. "I remember running into the house, crying.

summer of 2004, I got a phone call from Steve Jobs.

One of Steve Wozniak's first memories was going to his father's workplace on a weekend and being shown electronic parts, with his dad "putting them on a table with me so I got to play with them.

Jobs's pep talk could have been

never could, and he was able to avoid having too many bozos working

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

the world are the ones who do. —Apple's "Think Different" commercial