Like Paul Jobs, Joanne Schieble was from a rural Wisconsin family of German heritage.
You did the impossible, because you didn’t realize it was impossible.
He told us to go back to the roots of the original 1984 Macintosh, an all-in-one consumer appliance,” recalled Schiller. “That meant design and engineering had to work together.
I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company.
Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
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.
I’m not sure,” Atkinson replied. “Maybe six months.” It was a wildly optimistic assessment, but also a motivating one.
An academic career in which a person is forced to produce scientific writings in great amounts creates a danger of intellectual superficiality,” he said.
I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists, but not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.
Most outside experts disagreed. “Maybe it’s time Steve Jobs stopped thinking quite so differently,” Business Week wrote in a story headlined “Sorry Steve, Here’s Why Apple Stores Won’t Work.
Instead, Franklin found “a good and faithful helpmate” who was frugal and practical and devoid of pretensions, traits that he later noted were far more valuable to a rising tradesman.
Wozniak could make one of the computers he had been sketching on.
Its leading thinkers embraced a Renaissance humanism that put its faith in the dignity of the individual and in the aspiration to find happiness on this earth through knowledge.
People who were not crushed ended up being stronger.
Einstein had a mild form of echolalia, causing him to repeat phrases to himself, two or three times, especially if they amused him.
I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that’s what I wanted to do.
Ever since Apple’s first brochure proclaimed “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication,” Jobs had aimed for the simplicity that comes from conquering complexities, not ignoring them. “It takes a lot of hard word,” he said, “to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions.
If there is no love, what then?”2.
Religion was at it’s best when it emphasized spiritual experiences rather than received dogma. “The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith, rather than living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it,” he told me. “I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s a great mystery.
Fish and guests stink after three days.