Quotes About Visionary

The idea of a personal computer, one that ordinary individuals could get their hands on and take home, was envisioned in 1945 by Vannevar Bush.

Engelbart showed, back in 1968, nearly everything that a networked personal computer does today.

Hertzfeld explained that he needed to get his Apple II DOS program in good enough shape to hand it over to someone. "You're just wasting your time with that!" Jobs replied. "Who cares about the Apple II? The Apple II will be dead in a few years. The Macintosh is the future of Apple, and you're going to start on it now!" With that, Jobs yanked out the power cord to Hertzfeld's Apple II, causing the code he was working on to vanish.

Steve Jobs was famously stubborn and

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

When they saw what Jobs and Johnson had built, they unanimously approved going ahead. It would, the board agreed, take the relationship between retailing and brand image to a new level.

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

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

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

Walter Isaacson

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.

Steve created the only lifestyle brand in the tech industry," Larry Ellison said.

Tim Cook When Steve Jobs returned to Apple and produced the "Think Different" ads and the iMac in his first year, it confirmed what most people already knew: that he could be creative and a visionary. He had shown that during his first round at Apple. What was less clear was whether he could run a company. He had definitely not shown that during his first round.

Because a lot of people think they're crazy, but in that craziness we see genius.

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

a leader is either very inclusive or a passionate visionary. But the best leaders could be both.

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artificial intelligence pioneer John McCarthy

Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!

The Mac, on the other hand, would end up being as "insanely great" as Jobs and his acolytes could possibly make it—but it would not ship for another sixteen months, way behind schedule.

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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

What made Leonardo a genius, what set him apart from people who are merely extraordinarily smart, was creativity, the ability to apply imagination to intellect.