Steve Jobs

“well i always think of steve jobs who said um you know he got pancreatic cancer which is the worst kind and he did a lot of um you know juice cleanses that kind of stuff yeah and i think i mean i may be wrong about this but i do think i remember him saying toward the end i”

“so when you have like a book on Steve Jobs life I mean you have some vague facts that you don't maybe know the entire circumstances the context of it's like you're you're you're flavoring things”

“um actually recently I started reading the Steve Jobs books but I never finished it”

“Reminded me of um the portrait of Steve Jobs in in Walter Isaacson's book, a book that I did not read for a long time because every review of it said the same thing.”

“you know when when walter isaacson's biographer steve jobs came out you know people said well turns out steve”

“I've listened to and read Steve Jobs' biography. - Mm. - And I think it's spectacular. I had a particular interest in it because- - What's the title? Because I've never read it. - I think it's "Steve Jobs" - Oh, I see. - by Walter Isaacson.”

“And the reason I say this is, um, you know, I remember when Steve Jobs was alive because I was a postdoc in Palo Alto then and would see him occasionally around Palo Alto, um, there; and then, you know, read the Walter Isaacson biography about him, and it seemed like he had a very clear sense that someday he”

“that's right and not just Walter isaacson's massive bestseller Steve Jobs”

“that's right and not just Walter isaacson's massive bestseller Steve Jobs”

“he was obsessed not with the bottom line he was obsessed with pushing Beauty out into the world you re you read isaacson's book Jo jobs etc etc”

“Maybe it's Jobs' Isaacson's autobiography on Jobs like you mentioned.”

“Isaacson writes, 'God gave us ten styluses,' he would say, waving his fingers. 'Let's not invent another.'”

“and there's a there's an interesting quote in isaacson's book from Noah Bushnell who's Jobs's old boss at Atari”

“if you ever read the Steve Jobs biography, they talk a lot about the reality distortion field and that's fine when we're talking about like a blue Mac, okay?”

“I just I can't really get into these books and I felt that way about Walter isaacson's Steve Jobs biography”

“Isaacson has the written biographies of Leonardo da Vinci of Henry Kissinger of Steve Jobs and I guess the Steve Jobs one is a book that many listeners might be familiar with already”

“the cover photograph of the Elon Musk book is essentially the same angle the same Fronton angle with a black backgrounds to have a white background as the Steve Jobs book”

“Walter Isaac who's writing a book about Elon right now by the way but Walter Ison in his biography of Steve Jobs he was like he was like look Steve Jobs was just too much of an [ __ ]”

“there was a book on the right brothers and these were written for somebody my age now you can read Walder isaacson's book on Benjamin Franklin or on Steve Jobs”

“reading Steve Jobs, you know, when Walter Isaacson wrote his brilliant book on Steve Jobs”

“I definitely think just based on Isaacson's biography, which is all I know of the man, that that's what happened. And I don't know, it'd be interesting to ask Walter Isaacson what he thinks, although he'd just say read the book, because my opinion is basically in there.”

“so I'm reading the biography of Steve Jobs I think I mentioned uh but they're talking there”

“Also, you have to build all the cars; if Elon does get out this Robo-taxi vehicle for $25k, which he seems like is well on the way with the Model 3, to getting to this—this was an early mockup from Walter Isaacson's book, which looks pretty sharp, and it doesn't have—it's like a two-seat car, so these things zigzagging around”

“Walter Isaacson author of Steve Jobs the exclusive biography said that this idea applied”

“and then I read Steve Jobs's biography much later. And so I was reading about people that I was fascinated by at a young age”

“he tends to take these big swings in his biographies he's taken up Steve Jobs Leonardo da Vinci”

“there's Isaacson Steve's jobs”

“I've not seen the movies, I've not read the book, because the idea of Walter Isaacson telling me anything is kind of annoying as a preface.”

“Like, I've told this story many times, and I have put, again, my own narrative fallacy on top of this, but you know Steve Jobs's sister wrote this obit in the New York Times when he died, and she ends it by saying his last words were, ‘Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow,’ that seems like an awesome way to”

“you've got the best-selling biographies of leonardo da vinci einstein steve jobs benjamin franklin and benjamin frank”

“walter is the author of best-selling biographies on leonardo da vinci einstein and steve jobs and has a new book out today which is called the code breaker jennifer doudna gene editing and the future of the human race”

“I thought they because I know when I read I actually read read Walter isaacson's biography on on on Einstein Einstein uhhuh and so one of many great biographies he's written including a Steve Jobs”

“Even his book cover, Fat Jew has a stupid book. Even his book cover is a copy of the Steve Jobs book.”

“I know there was a an article that some billionaire investor guy dumped all his Apple stock after he read the biography cuz he said Steve Jobs is an [ __ ]”

“this is way back in 2013 in October um right after the book came out that the guy this hedge fund investor sold all of his shares in apple because he's read the biography of Steve Jobs and uh decided that Apple the founder of Apple was a really awful person”