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Einstein: His Life and Universe

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“What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft. They’re causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.”

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“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

Walter Isaacson book Steve Jobs

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“There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth”

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“Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.”

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“Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.”

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“Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.”

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Walter Isaacson Quotes about the trip

“One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.”

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“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.”

Walter Isaacson book Steve Jobs

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“Steve Jobs: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

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Walter Isaacson Quotes

“If you act like you can do something, then it will work.”

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“People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.”

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“I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s the great mystery. (Steve Jobs)”

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“On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?”

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“if you can't keep him interested, that's your fault.”

Walter Isaacson book Steve Jobs

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“I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the digital one was when I was his age.”

Walter Isaacson book Steve Jobs

Source: Steve Jobs

“The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand”

Walter Isaacson book Steve Jobs

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“Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book." (Steven Levy)”

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“Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.”

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“Form follows emotion”

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“Innovation requires articulation.”

Walter Isaacson

The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

“Let’s Be Pirates!”

Walter Isaacson book Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs

“The creativity that can occur when a feel for both the humanities and the sciences combine in one strong personality was the topic that most interested me in my biographies of Franklin and Einstein, and I believe that it will be a key to creating innovative economies in the twenty-first century.”

Walter Isaacson book Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs (2011), Simon & Schuster (U.S.), Ch. 19: "Pixar: Technology Meets Art", ISBN 1-4516-4853-7

“Relativity is a simple concept. It asserts that the fundamental laws of physics are the same whatever your state of motion.”

Walter Isaacson book Einstein: His Life and Universe

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