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Here is our gentle and beloved Leonardo, who became a vegetarian because of his fondness for all creatures, wallowing in horrifying depictions of death.

the phone, 'You know that is not true,' " Brennan recalled. "He was going to drag me

Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute

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

It was Sunday, June 29, 1975, a milestone for the personal computer.

He was particularly good at apprehending movement, from the motions of a flapping wing to the emotions flickering across a face.

simply said that the Apple team knew the capabilities of the Be OS and asked if they

There was a long silence. Al Gore was the first to speak, and he listed Jobs's accomplishments

really don't apply to Apple's culture." Levitt later

Numbers in roman type refer to illustrations in the Photos section; numbers in italics refer to book pages.

perhaps no matter how fast computers progress, artificial intelligence may never outstrip the intelligence of the human-machine partnership. Let

from Morgan Stanley, which was a pretty uptight firm in those days," recalled

Markkula and some others could never quite appreciate Jobs's obsession with typography.

Von Neumann was another innovator who stood at the intersection of the humanities and sciences.

Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.

Sutil es el Señor, pero malicioso no lo es.

insight, the user is never wrong, led to this idea that we could produce a search engine that was better.

Franklin would find himself more attracted to people who were practical and reliable rather than dreamy and romantic.

und die lieben Züricher können mich auch…

According to a tale recorded by James McHenry of Maryland, he made his point in a pithier way to an anxious lady named Mrs. Powel, who accosted him outside the hall. What type of government, she asked, have you delegates given us? To which he replied, "A republic, madam, if you can keep it.

in the present situation we must support a supranational organization of force rather than advocate the abolition of all forces

auditorium and ambled down the aisle. Amelio had told the gathering that Jobs

There is some difference between them and sheep: Sheep will never make any insurrections.

Given a choice of order or justice, he often said, paraphrasing Goethe, he would choose order. He had seen too clearly the consequences of disorder.