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People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.
Innovation requires articulation.
I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
A theme of digital success is keeping it simple.
if you can't keep him interested, that's your fault.
Let's crowd source, curate, and add royalties to books
If you act like you can do something, then it will work.
I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.
We're all swimming in this digital revolution that we live in.
For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.
One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.
...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.
Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.
What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
Most innovation comes from people working together, collaborating in teams.
Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.
I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.
Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?
Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
If you truly have a passion for what you do, you will care even about the parts unseen.
I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.
There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth
Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.
I am a fruitarian and I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight - Steve Jobs
It's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others.
Most of the collaborations of technology were done by teams...Collaboration is key to creativity
And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.
Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
The best and most innovative products don't always win...(it's an) aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked
Vision w/o execution is just hallucination. You need the right combination of visionary + team that can execute
Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.
Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
Sometimes, to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet, a practice that was not as soothing for his collegues.
I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings.
I used to be an angry man myself. I’m a recovering assaholic so I could recognize that in Steve. (quoting Jean-Louis Gassée)
Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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.
Mainly, the reason people who didn't succeed had trouble because they had trouble forming teams. They didn't know how to collaborate.
You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.
I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.
I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened... I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
