Alex Bilyk

“endorsed by Jobs,”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“When Mike Markkula joined Jobs and Wozniak to turn their fledgling partnership into the Apple Computer Co. in January 1977, they valued it at $5,309. Less than four years later they decided it was time to take it public.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“saying—‘good artists copy, great artists steal’—and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Raskin was just a dreamer, whereas he was a doer and would get the Mac done in a year. It was clear he wanted vindication for having been ousted from the Lisa group, and he was energized by competition. He publicly bet John Couch $5,000 that the Mac would ship before the Lisa. “We can make a computer that’s cheaper and better than the Lisa, and get it out first,” he told the team. Jobs asserted his control of the group by canceling a brown-bag lunch seminar that Raskin was scheduled to give to the whole company in February 1981. Raskin happened to go by the room anyway and discovered that there were a hundred people there waiting to hear him;”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs