[ebook4everything.com]Steve Jobs - Isaacson_ Walter

In his kitchen: “Coming back after seven months in Indian villages, I saw the craziness of the Western world as well as its capacity for rational thought.”

At Stanford, 1982: “How many of you are virgins? How many of you have taken LSD?”

With the Lisa: “Picasso had a saying—‘good artists copy, great artists steal’—and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.”

With John Sculley in Central Park, 1984: “Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?”

In his Apple office, 1982: Asked if he wanted to do market research, he said, “No, because customers don’t know what they want until we’ve shown them.”

At NeXT, 1988: Freed from the constraints at Apple, he indulged his own best and worst instincts.

With John Lasseter, August 1997: His cherubic face and demeanor masked an artistic perfectionism that rivaled that of Jobs.

At home working on his Boston Macworld speech after regaining command of Apple, 1997: “In that craziness we see genius.”

Sealing the Microsoft deal by phone with Gates: “Bill, thank you for your support of this company. I think the world’s a better place for it.”