Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic of nature's phenomena-magnetic fields, gravity, inertia, acceleration, light beams-which grown-ups find so commonplace. He retained the ability to hold two thoughts in his mind simultaneously, to be puzzled when they conflicted, and to marvel when he could smell an underlying unity. "People like you and me never grow old," he wrote a friend later in life. "We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
Walter IsaacsonThe older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft donโt really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music.
Walter IsaacsonJobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. โThere is no one better at turning off the noise that is going on around him,โ Cook said. โThat allows him to focus on a few things and say no to many things. Few people are really good at that.
Walter IsaacsonLeonardo da Vinci was lucky to be born the same year that Johannes Gutenberg opened his printing shop. As a young person, he could get information about whatever struck his curiosity. The Internet is to our age what Gutenberg's press was to his, so he would have loved being alive today.
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