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something that's so thoughtful on the outside you say, 'Oh, wow, it must be really thoughtful
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If I had to choose between justice and disorder, on the one hand, and injustice and order, on the other, I would always choose the latter.
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When the sales guys run the company, the product guys don't matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off.
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We really fucked up the engineering on this
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What is it you don't understand about the universe?" Jobs replied, "I don't understand why all of a sudden my dad is so broke.
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other computer wunderkind born in 1955.
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Sometimes, to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet, a practice that was not as soothing for his collegues.
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Since the mathematicians have grabbed hold of the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it.
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Innovation occurs when ripe seeds fall on fertile ground.
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In other words, the future might belong to people who can best partner and collaborate with computers. In
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There's a deep current of humanity in our innovation.
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Veteran colleagues at Apple used to call his "reality distortion field." Sometimes it was the inadvertent misfiring of memory
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When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting him.
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When highbrow critics accused Time of practicing personality journalism, Luce replied that Time did not invent the genre, the Bible did.
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most grounded people I have ever met. "There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and
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Himself as the natural successor in that sequence. Because
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The tale of their teamwork is important because we don't often focus on how central that skill is to innovation.
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It is tasteless to prolong life artificially," he told Dukas. "I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.
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There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth
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Form follows emotion
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Apple's products
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crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. - Apple's "Think Different" commercial, 1997
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In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important.
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The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
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See God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably.
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There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution,
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Responded with a presidential note describing how Washington defined a "base." Work on the new facility was halted,
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Write a biography of him. I had recently published one
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Everything you've ever done in your life is shit," Jobs said, "so why don't you come work for me?
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A frank, smart and wholly unsentimental biography . . . a remarkably
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Steve Jobs had a tendency to see things in a binary way: A person was either a hero or a bozo, a product was either amazing or shit
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(Franklin and, by extension, the Junto were particularly fond of things that could help the public as well as themselves.)
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.
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Innovation happens in stages.
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Perhaps the oddest meeting was when Dr. Dre came to visit Jobs at Apple headquarters. Jobs loved the Beatles
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Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.
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In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.
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You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.
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Taking a long walk was his preferred way to have a serious conversation. It turned
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misanthrope." Einstein
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The digital age could not become truly transformational until computers became truly personal.
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much of my time trying to convince people to do
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ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs's girlfriend at Homestead High, mother
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Engelbart showed, back in 1968, nearly everything that a networked personal computer does today.
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I don't have any skeletons in my closet that can't be allowed out.
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since he was also in California. At
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People will provide judgment, intuition, empathy, a moral compass, and human creativity.
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Steve had a TEAC reel-to-reel and massive quantities of Dylan bootlegs," Kottke recalled. "He was both really cool and high-tech.
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When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
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Didn't care to make their product perfect, they were a bozo. At the West Coast Computer Faire
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Innovation requires articulation.
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rethink things. There was something about the design that lacked purity, he felt. "Why
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A theme of digital success is keeping it simple.
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Don't worry about people stealing an idea," he once told a student. "If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
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An irresistible glimpse into his complex and often
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And extol his new Macintosh. He was petulant
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We'd buy brochures of Dylan lyrics and stay up late interpreting them. Dylan's words struck chords of creative thinking.
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half that. The next quarter it sold fewer than
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I am a fruitarian and I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight - Steve Jobs
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A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.46
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the removal of all royal governments in the colonies. Patriotic
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Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and the World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.
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You shouldn't whitewash it. He's good at spin, but he also has a remarkable story, and I'd like to see that it's all told truthfully.
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Customers don't know what they want until we've shown them.
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Laurene, Eve, Erin, and Lisa at the Corinth Canal in Greece, 2006: For young people, this
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States is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build creative digital-age economies, Jobs
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Thus did Ada, Countess of Lovelace, help sow the seeds for a digital age that would blossom a hundred years later.
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Betty Snyder, who, under her married name, Betty Holberton, went on to become a pioneer programmer who helped develop the COBOL and Fortran languages,
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Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.
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Like many entrepreneurs, Bushnell had no shame about distorting reality in order to motivate people.
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The comparison is perhaps a little bit unfair because a sonnet written by a machine will be better appreciated by another machine.
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was restored to the throne at Apple, we put him on
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Tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled
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It takes a lot of hard work," he said, "to make something simple,
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Getting shocked was a badge of honor for Woz. He prided himself on being a hardware engineer, which meant
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With the "SWAB JOB" school prank sign
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Tangerine clam, and a professional desktop computer that suggested a Zen ice cube. Like bell-bottoms that turn up in the
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I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.
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By 1940 Grace Hopper was bored. She had no children, her marriage was unexciting, and teaching math was not as fulfilling as she had hoped.
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Unlike other product developers, Jobs did not believe the customer was always right; if they wanted to resist using a mouse, they were wrong.
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If you act like you can do something, then it will work.
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Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.
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Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.
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When I was diagnosed with cancer, I made my deal with God or whatever, which was that I
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Steve Jobs: The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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assented. I ended up having more
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A few days after he unveiled the iPad in January 2010, Jobs held a "town hall" meeting with employees at Apple's campus.
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the best semiconductor engineers in the country
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During the crossing, Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and by the time we arrived I was fully convinced that he really understands it.
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Innovation is driven by people who have both good theories and the opportunity to be part of a group that can implement them. The
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Perhaps no matter how fast computers progress, artificial intelligence may never outstrip the intelligence of the human-machine partnership. Let
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Old physicist joke: they knew that the approach worked in practice, but could they make it work in theory?
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