1. "He's not the Messiah,
he's a very naughty boy!"
This quote comes from Brian's
mother in The Life of Brian and, while Jobs's god-like status
in business is definitely earned, so too was his status (for a time) as a
trouble-making kid.
2. "Do whatever you do
intensely."
This quote comes from Robert Henri
and advises something that Isaacson repeatedly shows Jobs put into practice.
3. "All he asked of life was
the best of everything."
This quote comes from the daughter
of the Italian inventor, Guglielmo Marconi, and is about her father's desire to
have nothing less than the best; it also, however, applies to Jobs—as readers
of Isaacson's biography will see in spades.
Of course, it should go without saying that these three quotes
leave out a ton of details. For those, you can start by reading my
review of the book, an
article I wrote that contains excerpts from
it, or skip
all that and dig in to the biography
itself.
The true genius of Jobs actually then can only be assessed in the future and this man will be part of us for a very long time indeed.
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