Fearless Genius

"[Steve Jobs] pushed them, sometimes kicking and screaming, to do what they thought they knew was impossible - until they somehow rose above their own considerable talents to deliver the miracles Steve demanded." p. 32

"Many at Apple were intrigued to learn that contrary to Wall Street's hyper-short-term thinking and the typical American business plan, Nintendo had conceived a hundred-year business model for itself." p. 74

"Apple had worked on this [handwriting] recognition software for years, but they could not solve the tricky challenge... By chance, one night in 1987 in Moscow, in the final years of the Cold War, an Apple board member answered a frantic knock at his hotel door. A Russian engineer nervously handed him a disk [that] contained the handwriting-recognition software that Apple desperately needed." p. 79






-Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley. Doug Menuez. Atria Books 2014.



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