Quotes About Connection

In the early summer of 2004, I got a phone call from Steve Jobs. He had been scattershot friendly to me over the years, with occasional bursts of intensity, especially when he was launching a new product that he wanted on the cover of Time or featured on CNN, places where I'd worked. But now that I was no longer at either of those places, I hadn't heard from him much. We talked a bit about the Aspen Institute, which I had recently joined, and I invited him

Like many aspects of the digital age, this idea that innovation resides where art and science connect is not new. Leonardo da Vinci was the exemplar of the creativity that flourishes when the humanities and sciences interact.

Many people suppose that computing machines are replacements for intelligence and have cut down the need for original thought," Wiener wrote. "This is not the case."14 The more powerful the computer, the greater the premium that will be placed on connecting it with imaginative, creative, high-level human thinking.

Life will be happier for the on-line individual because the people with whom one interacts most strongly will be selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity." J. C. R. Licklider and Robert Taylor, "The Computer as a Communication Device," Science and Technology , Apr. 1968.

The beauty of nature and the joy that comes from unstructured human engagement is a powerful combination.

Finally, I was struck by how the truest creativity of the digital age came from those who were able to connect the arts and sciences.

If there is no love, what then?

Email did more than facilitate the exchange of messages between two computer users. It led to the creation of virtual communities, ones that, as predicted in 1968 by Licklider and Taylor, were "selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity.

Jobs put his hand on Ellison's left shoulder, pulled him so close that their noses almost touched, and said, Larry, this is why it's really important that I'm your friend. You don't need any more money.

Then, unexpectedly, he phoned me late on the afternoon of New Year's Eve 2009. He was at home in Palo Alto with only his

I cried in my office as he was showing me the idea, and I still cry when I think about it.

When I look into most people's eyes, I see a soul. When I look into your eyes, I see a bottomless pit, an empty hole, a dead zone." Then she walked away.

Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they're doing, you say 'Wow,' and soon you're cooking up all sorts of ideas.

Evite los compartimentos estancos.

las ideas nuevas afloran cuando una multitud de conceptos casuales encajan entre sí hasta fusionarse.

Alex Haley once said that the best way to begin a speech is "Let me tell you a story." Nobody is eager for a lecture, but everybody loves a story.

there, so Jobs left a message asking him to come to dinner the following evening. He would also invite the

nobody knew, she said. He had called me right before he was going to be operated on for

inventiveness, imagination, and sustained innovation. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology

That's crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they're doing, you say 'Wow,' and soon you're cooking up all sorts of ideas.

Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word

The little device that finally created a connection between home computers and global networks was called a modem.

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

In the first few pages, I was confronted with my family, my anecdotes, my things, my thoughts, myself in the character Jane