a loser?

nostalgia

 

contemporary minimalists

future or flop?

 To start, no Apps.

no fomo

Conan O'Brien [born 1963] explains here that he could have been a multi-billionaire as he was approached to get in early with companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple, but he passed as he didn't "get it" despite his Magna Cum Laude Harvard education. 

otherwise overwhelming

Power of Three

We have three acts as the dominant structure to screenwriting. The “comic triple” for surprise punchlines. Three clusters of time (past, present, and future).

There are three little pigs, three Musketeers, three wise men, and the three Stooges.

How about “blood, sweat, and tears,” or “mind, body, spirit,’ and the infamous, “sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll.”

Source here.

Nut Jobs

Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels. The trouble makers, the round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

They’re not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them … because they change things, they push the human race forward.

While some may see them as “the crazy ones”, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world – are the ones who do.

- Steve Jobs

Greatest accomplishment?

"The team."
- Steve Jobs

on progress

"You need to be comfortable being uncomfortable."
- Ginni Rometty, Chairman & CEO IBM, which has more revenues than Apple but less Market Cap

Scrumpy

"A gallon a day keeps the doctor away."
- Medieval Truism

Image source here.

paraphrase

"A buyer doesn't know what they want until you show it to them."
- Steve Jobs

creativity

"What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable."
- Sir Jonathan Ive

never make the first move

A strategy embraced by FDR and Steve Jobs.

on going second

"Don't ever be the first person to try anything."
- David Bowie as recalled by Gwyneth Paltrow

sui generis

"We're not about 'First' we're about 'Best.'
- Tim Cook

"If you're not making mistakes you're not trying."
- Tim Cook, Apple CEO

"I thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I like electronics. Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who can stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that’s what I wanted to do. "
- Steve Jobs

limbic

barometer

"If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry."
- Mario Batali distilling Michael Pollan

"We don't do market research. We tell them what they want."
- Steve Jobs