To celebrate my achievement of completing 20% of Steve Jobs Biography (... in 3 months), here are the few A B C D snippets that I found well written and interesting:
Page 113 – (Abandoned) Jobs and Brennan were both twenty-three when Jobs abandoned his daughter. The same age that Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali had been when they had Jobs (and then put him for adoption)
Page 148 – (Big Picture) One day Jobs came into the cubicle of Larry Kenyon, an engineer who was working on the Macintosh operating system, and complained that it was taking too long to boot up. Kenyon started to explain, but Jobs cut him off. “If it could save a person’s life, would you find a way to shave ten seconds off the boot time?” he asked. Kenyon allowed that he probably would. Jobs went to whiteboard and showed that if there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year that people would save, which was equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year. Larry was suitably impressed, and a few weeks later he came back and it booted up twenty-eight seconds faster.
Page 159 – (Craftmanship) A great carpenter isn’t going to use lousy wood for the back of a cabinet, even though nobody’s going to see it. When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful peace of wood on the back. Same philosophy is applied to Apple’s in making sure that even the aspects that will remain hidden are done beautifully.
Page 158 – (Design in California) Hartmut Esslinger, a German designer, won the contest for design language for Apple product. Even though he was German, Esslinger proposed that there should be a “born-in America gene for Apple’s DNA” that would produce a “California global” look, inspired by “Hollywood and music, a bit of rebellion, and natural sex appeal.” Jobs offered Esslinger a contract on the condition that he move to California. Esslinger’s firm opened in Palo Alto in mid-1983 with a $1.2 million annual contract to work for apple, and from then on every Apple product has included the proud declaration “Designed in California”
I hope I won't get into any legal issue because of this ^^;
Now going to the next 20%!
ED
Page 113 – (Abandoned) Jobs and Brennan were both twenty-three when Jobs abandoned his daughter. The same age that Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali had been when they had Jobs (and then put him for adoption)
Page 148 – (Big Picture) One day Jobs came into the cubicle of Larry Kenyon, an engineer who was working on the Macintosh operating system, and complained that it was taking too long to boot up. Kenyon started to explain, but Jobs cut him off. “If it could save a person’s life, would you find a way to shave ten seconds off the boot time?” he asked. Kenyon allowed that he probably would. Jobs went to whiteboard and showed that if there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year that people would save, which was equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year. Larry was suitably impressed, and a few weeks later he came back and it booted up twenty-eight seconds faster.
Page 159 – (Craftmanship) A great carpenter isn’t going to use lousy wood for the back of a cabinet, even though nobody’s going to see it. When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful peace of wood on the back. Same philosophy is applied to Apple’s in making sure that even the aspects that will remain hidden are done beautifully.
Page 158 – (Design in California) Hartmut Esslinger, a German designer, won the contest for design language for Apple product. Even though he was German, Esslinger proposed that there should be a “born-in America gene for Apple’s DNA” that would produce a “California global” look, inspired by “Hollywood and music, a bit of rebellion, and natural sex appeal.” Jobs offered Esslinger a contract on the condition that he move to California. Esslinger’s firm opened in Palo Alto in mid-1983 with a $1.2 million annual contract to work for apple, and from then on every Apple product has included the proud declaration “Designed in California”
I hope I won't get into any legal issue because of this ^^;
Now going to the next 20%!
ED
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