One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.
Form follows emotion.
To dwell on the things taht depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.
I don’t have any skeletons in my closet that can’t be allowed out.
I think Henry Kissinger grew up with that odd mix of ego and insecurity that comes from being the smartest kid in the class. From really knowing you’re more awesomely intelligent than anybody else, but also being the guy who got beaten up for being Jewish.
Jobs had always been an extremely opinionated eater, with a tendency to instantly judge any food as either fantastic or terrible. He could taste two avocados that most mortals would find indistinguishable, and declare that one was the best avocado ever grown and the other inedible.
He showed me the rudiments of electronics, and I got very interested in that.” Even more interesting were the trips to scavenge for parts.
One of Job’s business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. ” If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will,” he said. So even though an Iphone might cannibalize sales of an IPod, or an IPad might cannibalize sales of a laptop, that did not deter him.
As Friedland had done and as Jobs would learn to do, he was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to cajole and intimidate and distort reality with the power of his personality.
We’ve got a hippie kid in the lobby. He says he’s not going to leave until we hire him. Should we call the cops or.
He was incredibly phony, a complete poseur... He pretended to be interested in technology, but he wasn’t. He was a marketing guy, and that is what marketing guys are: paid poseurs.
There was a long silence. Al Gore was the first to speak, and he listed Jobs’s accomplishments.
The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
You shouldn’t whitewash it. He’s good at spin, but he also has a remarkable story, and I’d like to see that it’s all told truthfully.
I believe that love is a better teacher than a sense of duty,” he said, “at least for me.
The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.
His persistence baffled me. He was known to guard his privacy, and I had no reason to believe he’d ever.