“It wasn’t like she needed the money desperately. She’d done very well for herself all these years. At only fifty-five years old, she could easily retire and live a nice life off her royalties and savings, but she didn’t want to do that. She didn’t want to sit somewhere and wither away. She had stories to tell, even if nobody wanted to read them.”
― Welcome To Jubilee
― Welcome To Jubilee
“through”
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“wanted”
― Cross My Heart
― Cross My Heart
“This is the start of an industry,” he told Jobs and Wozniak, predicting the company would make the Fortune 500, the prestigious list of America’s biggest companies, in a matter of years. “It happens once a decade.”
― Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different: A Biography
― Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different: A Biography
“With that,” Hertzfeld recalled later, “he walked over to my desk, found the power cord to my Apple II, gave it a sharp tug, and pulled it out of the socket.” Everything Hertzfeld had been working on was gone. Jobs stacked the monitor on top of the computer and told Hertzfeld, “Come with me. I’m going to take you to your new desk.”
― Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different: A Biography
― Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different: A Biography
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