Just Being The Seeker, Somebody Whose Open

I Have My Own Theory About Why Decline Happens At Companies Like Ibm Or Microsoft. The Company Does A Great Job, Innovates And Becomes A Monopoly Or Close To It In Some Field, And Then The Quality Of The Product Becomes Less Important. The Company Starts Valuing The Great Salesmen, Because They’re The Ones Who Can Move The Needle On Revenues, Not The Product Engineers And Designers. So The Salespeople End Up Running The Company.

Was He Smart? No, Not Exceptionally. Instead, He Was A Genius.

The Mona Lisa, To Me, Is The Greatest Emotional Painting Ever Done. The Way The Smile Flickers Makes It A Work Of Both Art And Science, Because Leonardo Understood Optics, And The Muscles Of The Lips, And How Light Strikes The Eye - All Of It Goes Into Making The Mona Lisa's Smile So Mysterious And Elusive.

Jobs Insisted That Apple Focus On Just Two Or Three Priorities At A Time. “there Is No One Better At Turning Off The Noise That Is Going On Around Him,” Cook Said. “that Allows Him To Focus On A Few Things And Say No To Many Things. Few People Are Really Good At That.

I Used To Be An Angry Man Myself. I’m A Recovering Assaholic So I Could Recognize That In Steve. (quoting Jean-louis Gassée)