So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem.

'A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. More than half the Websites created on Macs wouldn't exist. Some 60% of the kids wouldn't have computers 64% of the teachers wouldn't have computers.

'What if Apple didn't exist? Think about it. … We just want to make great products.' - CNNMoney/Fortune, February 2008 Because we make these tools, and we're constantly surprised with what people do with them.' - D5 Conference: All Things Digital, 2007 The age we're living in, these tools surprise you. Here, with Agate's permission, is a sampling of quotations included in the book: 'I very much see the book as an homage to Steve Jobs,' he said in an email, 'and what really drew me to the project was the realization that Jobs is indisputably the most remarkable business figure of the past three decades, and that there was real value in collecting his public statements for the sake of all those people who will find insight and inspiration in them.' Now it so happens that Jobs' authorized biography, by Walter Isaacson, was at one time going to be titled 'iSteve.' It was due out next year, but it was retitled 'Steve Jobs: A Biography,' and its publication was moved up to this fall, shortly before Jobs announced in August that his health would force him to step aside as Apple CEO.ĭoug Seibold, Agate's publisher, said he moved up the publication of 'I, Steve' too, and thinks of it as a companion to Isaacson's bio. Its full title: 'I, Steve: Steve Jobs In His Own Words.' The book, edited by George Beahm, is due out in November. Perhaps it's inevitable that a book about him would be titled 'I, Steve.' Agate Publishing of Evanston, Ill., has assembled a 160-page volume of Jobs' quotations, culled from interviews, public appearances and writings after he co-founded Apple Inc. 22, 2011 — - Steve Jobs, who brought the world the iPhone, the iPad, the iPod and so much more, has left a rich history, both of technological innovations and of thoughts about what people want from them.

I, Steve by George Beahm