Giues Quotes & Sayings

they won't help a hurt man up from the gutter due to the obligation it imposes. — Philip K. Dick

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity. — Timothy Noah

I didn't start out to chart the skies; it's just no one had done it before. — Elrey Borge Jeppesen

We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence. — Peter F. Drucker

Vntroubled night they say giues counsell best. — Edmund Spenser

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful. — Philip Johnson

Isaacson's biography can be read in several ways. It is on the one hand a history of the most exciting time in the age of computers, when the machines first became personal and later, fashionable accessories. It is also a textbook study of the rise and fall and rise of Apple and the brutal clashes that destroyed friendships and careers. And it is a gadget lover's dream, with fabulous, inside accounts of how the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone and iPad came into being. But more than anything, Isaacson has crafted a biography of a complicated, peculiar personality - Jobs was charming, loathsome, lovable, obsessive, maddening - and the author shows how Jobs's character was instrumental in shaping some of the greatest technological innovations — Walter Isaacson