Quotes About Inspiration

I said, 'My God,' and hired him on the spot," Jobs recalled.

Walter Isaacson

the biggest way to deliver an effect to the world is not by writing a paper but by taking technology you believe in and making something of it.

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

Los artistas buenos copian y los artistas geniales roban"

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers.

It's rare that you see an artist in his thirties or forties able to really contribute something amazing," Jobs declared as he was about to turn thirty.

market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

What drives people to do good things is recognition.

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

Shockley had the ability to visualize quantum theory, how it explained the movement of electrons, the way a choreographer can visualize a dance.

Si quieres vivir de forma creativa, como un artista, no debes mirar demasiado hacia atrás. Tienes que estar dispuesto a recoger todo lo que eres y todo lo que has hecho y arrojarlo por la ventana.

the way that good ideas often blossom: a bumblebee brings half an idea from one realm, and pollinates another fertile realm filled with half-formed innovations

Ideas are often generated in physical gathering places where people with diverse interests encounter one another serendipitously. That is why Steve Jobs liked his buildings to have a central atrium and why the young Benjamin Franklin founded a club where the most interesting people of Philadelphia would gather every Friday.

Leonardo said so himself. "Intellectual passion drives out sensuality," he wrote in one of his notebooks.

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

New ideas occur when a lot of random notions churn together until they coalesce.

Isaacson is to be commended for explaining the genius of Jobs in fascinating fashion, launching a discussion that could reach infinity and beyond." —The Christian Science Monitor "Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs comes as a breath of fresh air . . . a reliable and captivating guide to a man who reshaped the computing industry

He replied that he wished he had thought of that, but hadn't. That started an exchange about the early history of Apple, and

He who can go to the fountain does not go to the water-jar.

Hey, if we're going to make things in our life, we might as well make them beautiful.

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

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inevitable call from him saying, "This hotel sucks, let's go." But Ive also captured the scattershot brilliance at the core of Jobs's genius when he described his boss tossing out ideas at a meeting. "Sometimes they were dopey. Sometimes they were truly dreadful. But