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?
Walter IsaacsonThere are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth
Walter IsaacsonPhysics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.
Walter Isaacsoni had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.
Walter IsaacsonI have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesmen, because theyโre the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and designers. So the salespeople end up running the company.
Walter Isaacson