Henry Ford once said, “If I’d asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, ‘A faster horse!
You know, Gina, Apple is like a ship,” Amelio answered. “That ship is loaded with treasure, but there’s a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction.
I’d been very influenced by what I’d seen in Japan. Part of what I greatly admired there – and part of what we were lacking in our factory – was as sense of teamwork and discipline. If we didn’t have the discipline to keep that place spotless, then we weren’t going to have the discipline to keep all those machines running.
The great uncertainty I found in metaphysical reasonings disgusted me, and I quitted that kind of reading and study for others more satisfactory.” What.
The Loser Now Will Be Later to Win.
That Tuesday afternoon, he kept staring into his children’s eyes. At one point he looked at Patty and his children for a long time, then at Laurene, and finally gazed past them into the distance. “Oh wow,” he said. “Oh wow. Oh wow.” Those were his final words before he drifted into unconsciousness sometime around two that afternoon.
By 1972 the price of a pocket calculator had dropped to $100, and 5 million units were sold. By 1975 the price was down to $25, and sales were doubling every year. In 2014 a Texas Instruments pocket calculator cost $3.62 at Walmart.
If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.” This.
Over dinner at a Georgian restaurant that specialized in shish kebab, Jobs continued his rant.
Mystery to Leonardo was a shadow, a smile and a finger pointing into darkness.
Every six months he would take most of his team on a two-day retreat at a nearby resort.
He was furious, and that was reflected in his passion to start what was, no matter how he spun it, a rival company.
Buddhism, was not just some passing fancy or youthful dabbling. He embraced it with his typical intensity, and it became deeply ingrained in his personality. “Steve is very much Zen,” said Kottke. “It was a deep influence. You see it in his whole approach of stark, minimalist aesthetics, intense.
His wife also did not request any restrictions or control, nor did she ask to see in advance what I would publish. In fact she strongly encouraged me to be honest about his failings as well as his strengths. She is one of the smartest.
Compromisers may not make great heroes, but they do make democracies.
Search the phrase “the man who invented” on Amazon and you get 1,860 book results. But we have far fewer tales of collaborative creativity, which is actually more important in understanding how today’s technology revolution was fashioned.
Tin Toy went on to win the 1988 Academy Award for animated short films, the first computer-generated film to do so. To celebrate, Jobs took Lasseter and his team to Greens, a vegetarian restaurant in San Francisco.
At the age of 31, he had five children to raise, a trade to tend, and a shop to keep. He needed a robust new wife, and he needed her quickly.
The Mac, on the other hand, would end up being as “insanely great” as Jobs and his acolytes could possibly make it – but it would not ship for another sixteen months, way behind schedule.
Einstein once said, “but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.