Carping was heard from only one familiar corner. 一个熟悉的声音又在吹毛求疵了。 As the iMac garnered kudos, Bill Gates assured a gathering of financial analysts visiting Microsoft that this would be a passing fad. iMac屡获殊荣之际,

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(29) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

If you go to slots, you will always be behind on the technology, Rubinstein argued. 如果你要做吸入式光驱,那你就会永远在技术上落后一步。鲁宾斯坦坚持道。 I don't care, that's what I want, Jobs snapped back. 我不在乎

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(30) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

Tim Cook 蒂姆库克 When Steve Jobs returned to Apple and produced the Think Different ads and the iMac in his first year, 在重返苹果公司之后的第一年,史蒂夫乔布斯推出了非同凡想广告和iMac, it confirmed what most peop

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(33) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

Jobs's successes came at a cost, since velvety diplomacy was still not part of his repertoire. 乔布斯的成功来之不易,因为怀柔政策仍然不在他的原则之内。 When he decided that a division of Airborne Express wasn't delivering

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(37) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

After three months of working under Jobs, Apple's head of operations decided he could not bear the pressure, and he quit. 在和乔布斯工作了3个月之后,苹果公司的运营主管因为不堪压力而辞职。 For almost a year Jobs ran ope

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(35) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

Cook, the son of a shipyard worker, was raised in Robertsdale, Alabama, 库克是一个造船厂工人的儿子,在亚拉巴马州的罗伯茨代尔长大, a small town between Mobile and Pensacola a half hour from the Gulf Coast. 这是一个位于

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(30) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

At Apple his role became implementing Jobs's intuition, which he accomplished with a quiet diligence. 在苹果公司,他成了贯彻乔布斯直觉的角色。 Never married, he threw himself into his work. 他默默耕耘,全心投入工作,至

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(31) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

At a meeting early in his tenure, Cook was told of a problem with one of Apple's Chinese suppliers. 在任职初期的一次会议上,库克听说苹果公司的某一家中国供应商出了问题。 This is really bad, he said. Someone should be

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(33) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

Mock Turtlenecks and Teamwork 高领衫和团队合作 On a trip to Japan in the early 1980s, 20世纪80年代初,在日本拜访时, Jobs asked Sony's chairman, Akio Morita, why everyone in his company's factories wore uniforms. 乔布斯曾问过

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(32) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

Like Paul Jobs, Joanne Schieble was from a rural Wisconsin family of German heritage. 与保罗乔布斯一样,乔安妮席贝尔 (Joanne Schieble )也来自威斯康星乡村的一个德裔家庭。 Her father, Arthur Schieble, had immigrated to

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(39) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

The forty-mile Santa Clara Valley, which stretches from South San Francisco through Palo Alto to San Jose, 这一綿延40英里的圣克拉拉谷,从南旧金山穿过帕洛奥图,一直延伸到圣何塞, has as its commercial backbone El Cami

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(20) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

He was proud that his father never adopted a servile attitude or slick style that may have made him a better salesman. 虽然如此,乔布斯还是很为父亲感到骄傲,因为他从来没有学会那种卑躬屈膝的态度和圆滑诡诈的作风

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(35) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

Every weekend, thered be a junkyard trip. Wed be looking for a generator, a carburetor, all sorts of components. 每个周末,我们都会进行一次废品站之旅。我们会寻找发电机,或者化油器,还有各种各样的元件。 He r

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(32) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

Silicon Valley 硅谷 The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s. 保罗和克拉拉夫妇为他们的儿子创造的童年,从很多方面来说,都是20世纪50年代后期的

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(31) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

Eventually Joanne relented, with the stipulation that the couple promisindeed sign a pledgeto fund a savings account to pay for the boy's college education. 最终,乔安妮放宽了要求:乔布斯夫妇必须承诺----在一份保证书上签字

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(24) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

The Adoption 领养 When Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his crewmates. 第二次世界大战后,保罗乔布斯从海岸警卫队退伍时,与他的队员们打了一个赌。 They had arriv

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(35) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

This is a book about the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: 这是一本关于一个富有创造力的企业家的书,关于

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

I asked Jobs why he wanted me to be the one to write his biography. 我问乔布斯为什么希望我担任这本传记的作者。 I think youre good at getting people to talk, he replied. That was an unexpected answer. 我觉得你很擅长让别人开

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

When he was restored to the throne at Apple, we put him on the cover of Time, 乔布斯重新执掌苹果公司之后,我们将他搬上了《时代》杂志的封面, and soon thereafter he began offering me his ideas for a series we were doing

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(34) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传

Introduction: How This Book Came to Be 前言:本书是如何诞生的 In the early summer of 2004, I got a phone call from Steve Jobs. 2004年的初夏,我接到史蒂夫乔布斯(Steve Jobs)打来的电话。 He had been scattershot friendly to

发表于:2018-12-26 / 阅读(34) / 评论(0) 分类 乔布斯传