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Sculley found Jobs as memorable as his machine. " He seemed more a showman than a businessman. Every move seemed calculated, as if it was rehearsed, to create an occasion of the moment.
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The glory of being an artist, he realized, was that reality should inform but not constrain
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Steve si myslí, že většina lidí nemá to, co je potřebné, aby se stali podnikateli nebo produktovými manažery. Mluvil o tom, když se pokoušel úspěšně rozjet NeXT. "Mnoho lidí," prohlásil, "ke mně přichází a říká, 'chci se stát podnikatelem'." Když se jich zeptám: "Jakou máte představu?", odpovídají: "Ještě žádnou nemám."Takovým lidem Steve doporučuje: "Myslím, že byste si měl najít práci sběrače nádobí nebo něco podobného, než si uvědomíte, pro co jste opravdu zapálen.
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La ventaja competitiva de una sociedad no vendrá de lo bien que se enseñe en sus escuelas la multiplicación y las tablas periódicas, sino de lo bien que se sepa estimular la imaginación y la creatividad.
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He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology, so he built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
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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.
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Years later, on a Steve Jobs discussion board on the website Gawker, the following tale appeared from someone who had worked at the Whole Foods store in Palo Alto a few blocks from Jobs' home: 'I was shagging carts one afternoon when I saw this silver Mercedes parked in a handicapped spot. Steve Jobs was inside screaming at his car phone. This was right before the first iMac was unveiled and I'm pretty sure I could make out, 'Not. Fucking. Blue. Enough!!!
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The sexual act of coitus and the body parts employed for it are so repulsive that, if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornment of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.
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Life will be happier for the on-line individual because the people with whom one interacts most strongly will be selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity.” J. C. R. Licklider and Robert Taylor,“The Computer as a Communication Device,” Science and Technology , Apr. 1968.
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