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Steve Jobs remembered by Stephen Wolfram | Technology | The Observer
The inspirational Apple leader's revolutionary talents were apparent long before the iPod came along I met Steve Jobs nearly a quarter of a century ago when he had left Apple and was working on building his NeXT computer and I was working on building the first version of our Mathematica software system.
The Revolution According to Steve Jobs | Magazine
llustration: Ryan Alexander I can’t find the tape of my first interview with Steve Jobs. At some point in the past 28 years—the conversation took place in November 1983—it got lost.
Steve Jobs’s Real Genius : The New Yorker
Based on the biography, Malcolm Gladwell profiles Steve Jobs as a tweaker. Jobs had an amazing ability to take things that had been built or invented or designed already and tweak them into something far better than the original.
Daring Fireball: Getting Steve Jobs Wrong
Exhibit A in the case against Walter Isaacson’s flawed Jobs biography: Malcolm Gladwell in last week’s New Yorker, arguing that Jobs was “a tweaker”: In 1779, Samuel Crompton, a retiring genius from Lancashire, invented the spinning mule, which made possible the mechanization of cotton manufacture.
What Kind of Buddhist was Steve Jobs, Really? | NeuroTribes
Kobun Chino Otogawa, Steve Jobs' Zen teacher. One reason I was looking forward to reading Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Steve Jobs was my hope that, as a sharp-eyed reporter, Isaacson would probe to the heart of what one of the few entrepreneurs who really deserved the term “visionary” learned from Buddhism.
I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif.
A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs - NYTimes.com
Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma - James Allworth - Harvard Business Review
In the lead up to today's release of the Steve Jobs biography , there's been an increasing stream of news surrounding its subject.
A Sociology of Steve Jobs - Kieran Healy
Steve Jobs had charisma. What does that mean? Narrowly, it means something about the force of the man’s personality and its effects on those who worked for him at Apple.
Eric Schmidt on Steve Jobs - Businessweek
Jobs and Schmidt connect at the introduction of the iPhone, 2007 Kim Kulish/Corbis Everyone knows the transaction where the board sided with John Sculley and Steve left Apple ( AAPL ). Steve sold all of his Apple stock, kept one share, and founded NeXT.
‘This Stuff Doesn’t Change the World’: Disability and Steve Jobs’ Legacy | Epicenter | Wired.com
When I heard that Steve Jobs had passed away, I was boarding a train from New York to Philadelphia to visit my son.The Man Who Inspired Jobs - NYTimes.com
Land, in his time, was nearly as visible as Jobs was in his.News Desk: Steve Jobs: “Technology Alone Is Not Enough” : The New Yorker
On January 30, 1986, shortly after he was forced out of Apple Computer (and years before his return), Steve Jobs bought a small computer manufacturer named Pixar from George Lucas, the director of Star Wars. While the Pixar team had produced a few impressive animated shorts for marketing purposes—“The Adventures of Andre and Wally B” is widely credited with spurring Hollywood’s interest in digital animation—Jobs was most interested in the Pixar Image Computer, a $125,000 machine capable of generating complex graphic visualizations.I had been planning to defer commenting on the death of Steve Jobs long enough to give its impact time to cool a little, but Against Nostalgia puts the case I would have made so well and so publicly that it has changed my mind. I met Steve Jobs once in 1999 when I was the president of the Open Source Initiative, and got caught up in one of his manipulations in a way that caused a brief controversy but (thankfully) did the organization no lasting harm.
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What Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve Jobs
In the days after Steve Jobs' death, friends and colleagues have, in customary fashion, been sharing their fondest memories of the Apple co-founder. He's been hailed as "a genius" and "the greatest CEO of his generation" by pundits and tech journalists. But a great man's reputation can withstand a full accounting.And he did, time and again. Mr. Jobs did not make the technology himself; he led the teams that did, prodding, cajoling and inspiring.