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1. "Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity." ~ Walter Isaacson
2. "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" ~ Walter Isaacson
3. "fifty-fifty on believing" ~ Walter Isaacson
4. "overweight," ~ Walter Isaacson
5. "What's on your iPod?" ~ Walter Isaacson
6. "Rupert Murdoch accepta d'écouter la vision que Jobs avait de Fox News, une chaîne que le P-DG d'Apple considérait comme destructrice pour la nation et dangereuse pour la réputation de son patron. « Vous vous plantez avec Fox News, lui dit-il au cours du dîner. Il n'y a plus d'un côté les libéraux et de l'autre les conservateurs, la ligne de partage dans le pays, c'est entre ceux qui sont constructifs et les destructeurs, et vous avez soutenu à l'antenne assez de personnes destructrices comme ça. La Fox est devenue une force noire dans notre société. Il faut redresser la barre, car si vous n'y prenez pas garde, ce sera votre seul legs aux générations futures. »" ~ Walter Isaacson
7. "Embrace uncertainty," the ads read." ~ Walter Isaacson
8. "Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over" ~ Walter Isaacson
9. "wanted" ~ Walter Isaacson
10. "recently" ~ Walter Isaacson
11. "launched his "Think Different" campaign, featuring iconic" ~ Walter Isaacson
12. "And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing." ~ Walter Isaacson
13. "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." ~ Walter Isaacson
14. "I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved." ~ Walter Isaacson
15. "I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done." ~ Walter Isaacson
16. "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.'" ~ Walter Isaacson
17. "When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human." ~ Walter Isaacson
18. "When the conventional wisdom of physics seemed to conflict with an elegant theory of his, Einstein was inclined to question that wisdom rather than his theory, often to have his stubbornness rewarded." ~ Walter Isaacson
19. "if you can't keep him interested, that's your fault." ~ Walter Isaacson
20. "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" ~ Walter Isaacson
21. "Steve has a reality distortion field." When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. "In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he's not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules." ~ Walter Isaacson
22. "Thank you for purchasing this Simon & Schuster eBook. Sign up for our newsletter and receive special offers, access to bonus content, and info on the latest new releases and other great eBooks from Simon & Schuster." ~ Walter Isaacson
23. "was too revealing. But talking to him afterward, I found myself rather captivated, as so many others have been over the years, by his engaging intensity. We stayed in touch, even after he was ousted from" ~ Walter Isaacson
24. "interviews with more than a hundred family members," ~ Walter Isaacson
25. "It was not merely intelligence that she saw. Years later she liked to show off a" ~ Walter Isaacson
26. "Simpson, later a food and beverage manager at the Boomtown casino near Reno. CLARA HAGOPIAN JOBS. Daughter of Armenian immigrants, married Paul Jobs in 1946; they adopted Steve soon after his birth in" ~ Walter Isaacson
27. "Sometimes, to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet, a practice that was not as soothing for his collegues." ~ Walter Isaacson
28. "Lembrar-me de que irei morrer dentro de pouco tempo é a ferramenta mais importante que já encontrei para me ajudar a fazer as grandes escolhas da vida. Porque quase tudo — todas as expectativas externas, todo o orgulho, todos os medos e embaraços ou fracassos — todas essas coisas deixam de ser importantes face à morte, deixando apenas lugar para as coisas que verdadeiramente importam. Lembrar-nos de que vamos morrer é a melhor forma que conheço de evitar a armadilha de pensar que temos algo a perder. É como se estivéssemos nus. Não há qualquer razão que nos impeça de seguir o coração." ~ Walter Isaacson
29. "When the sales guys run the company, the product guys don't matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off." ~ Walter Isaacson
30. "Another time, he was playing [chess] with his equal, the Duchess of Bourbon, who made a move that inadvertently exposed her king. Ignoring the rules of the game, he promptly captured it. "Ah," said the duchess, "we do not take Kings so." Replied Franklin in a famous quip: "We do in America." ~ Walter Isaacson
31. "through most of the night. Even thus isolated, he became known for his brashness. On those occasions" ~ Walter Isaacson
32. "Atkinson," ~ Walter Isaacson
33. "suggested it would be sometime in the second quarter of that year. At the first NeXT retreat back in late 1985, he had refused to budge, despite Joanna Hoffman's pushback, from his commitment to have the machine finished in early 1987. Now it was clear" ~ Walter Isaacson
34. "American University" ~ Walter Isaacson
35. "VisiCalc," ~ Walter Isaacson
36. "south of Golden Gate Park, and he took a job working for a finance company as a "repo man," picking the locks of cars whose" ~ Walter Isaacson
37. "Andy Hertzfeld joined the Macintosh team, he got a briefing from Bud Tribble, the other software designer, about the huge amount of work that still needed" ~ Walter Isaacson
38. "war ferrying troops to Italy for General Patton. His talent as a machinist and fireman earned him commendations, but he occasionally found himself in minor" ~ Walter Isaacson
39. "tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. Shakespeare's Henry V—the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a passionate but sensitive, callous but sentimental, inspiring but flawed king—begins with the exhortation "O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend / The brightest heaven of invention." For Steve Jobs, the ascent to the brightest heaven of invention begins with a tale of two sets of parents, and of" ~ Walter Isaacson
40. "Sculley found Jobs as memorable as his machine. " He seemed more a showman than a businessman. Every move seemed calculated, as if it was rehearsed, to create an occasion of the moment." ~ Walter Isaacson
41. "Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter out distractions. If something engaged him- the user interface for the original Macintosh, the design of the iPod and iPhone, getting music companies into the iTunes Store-he was relentless. But if he did not want to deal with something - a legal annoyance, a business issue, his cancer diagnosis, a family tug- he would resolutely ignore it. That focus allowed him to say no. He got Apple back on track by cutting all except a few core products. He made devices simpler by eliminating buttons, software simpler by eliminating features, and interfaces simpler by eliminating options. He attributed his ability to focus and his love of simplicity to his Zen training. It honed his appreciation for intuition, showed him how to filter out anything that was distracting or unnecessary, and nurtured in him an aesthetic based on minimalism." ~ Walter Isaacson
42. "One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to "have skin in the game" and take the payout in stock that he would agree to hold for at least a year." ~ Walter Isaacson
43. "Yet Jobs knew that he could manipulate Sculley by encouraging his belief that they were so alike. And the more he manipulated Sculley, the more contemptuous of him he became." ~ Walter Isaacson
44. "Paul Jobs with Steve," ~ Walter Isaacson
45. "Jobs did not know that Sculley had told Eisenstat he wanted to quit, but by then it didn't matter. Overnight, he had changed his mind and decided to stay. Despite the blowup the day before, he was still eager for Jobs to like him. So he agreed to meet the next afternoon." ~ Walter Isaacson
46. "Avie Tevanian, a lanky and gregarious engineer at NeXT who had become Jobs's friend, remembers that every now and then, when they were going out to dinner, they would stop by Chrisann's house to pick up Lisa. "He was very sweet to her," Tevanian recalled. "He was a vegetarian, and so was Chrisann, but she wasn't. He was fine with that. He suggested she order chicken, and she" ~ Walter Isaacson
47. "Spiritus Domini," performed by Benedictine monks." ~ Walter Isaacson
48. "Steve Jobs thus became the greatest business executive of our era, the one most certain to be remembered a century from now. History will place him in the pantheon right next to Edison and Ford. More than anyone else of this time, he made products that were completely innovative, combining the power of poetry and processors. With a ferocity that could make working with him as unsettling as it was inspiring, he also built the world's most creative company. And he was able to infuse into its DNA the design sensibilities, perfectionism, and imagination that make it likely to be, even decades from now, the company that thrives best at the intersection of artistry and technology." ~ Walter Isaacson
49. "...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism." ~ Walter Isaacson
50. "When you open the box of an iPhone or iPad, we want that tactile experience to set the tone for how you perceive the product." ~ Walter Isaacson
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