Four days after her stepfather raped her, fifteen year old Darcy Weston walked into Crestwood Prep School ready to take action. Still jittery from the assault, and wanting to puke all the time, she tried to concentrate on the laughter
“He believed in eating nothing but fruits and starchless vegetables, which he said prevented the body from forming harmful”
― Steve Jobs
― Steve Jobs
“Jobs had spent so many afternoons. Jony Ive had arranged for the table to be brought to the graveside. There were fifty or so family members and friends in attendance,”
― Steve Jobs
― Steve Jobs
“1828, the Duke of Wellington, hero of Waterloo, became prime minister of the United Kingdom. In South America, Uruguay gained national independence. Japan suffered its”
― Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865
― Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865
“From Mike Markkula he had learned the importance of packaging and presentation. People do judge a book by its cover, so for the box of the Macintosh, Jobs chose a full-color design and kept trying to make it look better. “He got the guys to redo it fifty times,” recalled Alain Rossmann, a member of the Mac team who married Joanna Hoffman. “It was going to be thrown in the trash as soon as the consumer opened it, but he was obsessed by how it looked.” To Rossmann, this showed a lack of balance; money was being spent on expensive packaging while they were trying to save money on the memory chips. But for Jobs, each detail was essential to making the Macintosh amazing.”
― Steve Jobs
― Steve Jobs
“I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis,” he later said.”
― Steve Jobs
― Steve Jobs
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