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.
If you truly have a passion for what you do, you will care even about the parts unseen.
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.
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.
Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.
I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it’s a dumb word, but mental processing power – I’ve watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.
When you write biographies, whether it’s about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
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.
Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.
I think one problem we’ve had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
Innovation requires articulation.
Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you’re not busy being born, you’re busy dying.
Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.
The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s. When Steve was two they adopted a girl they named Patty, and three years later they moved to a tract house in the suburbs.
Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.
There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that’s the truth.
I don’t think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.
I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.