Well, Steve, I think there’s more than one way of looking at it. I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.” Gates’s.
This will be really powerful to have it in your voice,” Clow argued. “It will be a way to reclaim the brand.” Jobs couldn’t decide whether to use the version with his voice or to stick with Dreyfuss. Finally, the night came when they had to ship the ad; it was due to air, appropriately enough, on the television premiere of Toy Story. As was often the case, Jobs did not like to be forced to make a decision. He told Clow to ship both versions; this would give him until the morning.
I do not know how the Third World War will be fought,” he answered, “but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth – rocks.”20.
Among the many surprising things about the life of Albert Einstein was the trouble he had getting an academic job.
A century after his great triumphs, we are still living in Einstein’s universe, one defined on the macro scale by his theory of relativity and on the micro scale by a quantum mechanics that has proven durable even as it remains disconcerting.
NeXT, 1988: Freed from the constraints at Apple, he indulged his own best and worst instincts.
Jobs quickly became bored with college. He liked being at Reed, just not taking the required classes.
I’m changing the world one keyboard at a time,” he deadpanned.
I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me.
Einstein offered her a deal. He would win the Nobel Prize someday, he said; if she gave him a divorce, he would give her the prize money. She thought for a week and accepted.
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?
He was working himself up into a fervor of delight while I was shrinking into a rage and thinking, How could you.
Leibniz had little engineering skill and did not surround himself with those who did. So, like many great theorists who lacked practical collaborators, he was unable to produce reliably working versions of his device.
I liked the film because it was about taking risks and learning to let those you love take risks,” Jobs said.
The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don’t really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music. We made the iPod for ourselves, and when you’re doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you’re not going to cheese out. If you don’t love something, you’re not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.
Concern for making life better for ordinary humans must be the chief object of science.
Indeed, most of their letters mixed romantic effusions with scientific enthusiasms, often with an emphasis on the latter.
Kilby displayed his awshucks humility. “When I hear that kind of thing,” he responded, “it reminds me of what the beaver told the rabbit as they stood at the base of Hoover Dam: ‘No, I didn’t build it myself, but it’s based on an idea of mine.
Innovation can be sparked by engineering talent, but it must be combined with business skills to set the world afire.
Leonardo’s optics experiments produced discoveries that would not be rediscovered for another century.23 In addition, they were important in honing his ability to match theory with experiment, and they became an underpinning of his studies on perspective.