Steve Jobs talks about the difference between art and technology

When asked by Time magazine about the difference between art and technology, Jobs said, “I’ve never believed that they’re separate. Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist and a great scientist. Michelangelo knew a tremendous amount about how to cut stone at the quarry. The finest dozen computer scientists I know are all musicians. Some are better than others, but they all consider that an important part of their life. I don’t believe that the best people in any of these fields see themselves as one branch of a forked tree. I just don’t see that. People bring these things together a lot. Dr. Land at Polaroid said, ‘I want Polaroid to stand at the intersection of art and science,’ and I’ve never forgotten that. I think that that’s possible, and I think a lot of people have tried.”

《Becoming Steve Jobs》Chapter 12 Two Decisions

Jim Collins, the bestselling author of the management classics Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies and Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t, has a wonderful phrase to describe an essential characteristic of great leaders: deep restlessness. Collins applies the phrase to Steve, one of the two great leaders who inspire him the most (the other is Winston Churchill, the great English politician who was prime minister during most of World War II, from 1940 to 1945, and again from 1951 to 1955). Collins believes this restlessness is far more important and powerful than simple ambition or raw intelligence. It is the foundation of resilience, and self-motivation. It is fueled by curiosity, the ache to build something meaningful, and a sense of purpose to make the most of one’s entire life. 自己何其有幸，在不到30的年纪，就能感受到乔布斯的心境 “The things he was trying to do,” says Collins, “were always hard. Sometimes those things beat him up. But the response to fighti...

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Steve Jobs at 44, By Michael Krantz, 1999

Differences and Similarities Between Apple and Pixar Apple turns out many products--a dozen a year; if you count all the minor ones, probably a hundred. Pixar is striving to turn out one a year. But the converse of that is that Pixar's products will still be used fifty years from now, whereas I don't think you'll be using any product Apple brings to market this year fifty years from now. Pixar is making art for the ages. Kids will be watching Toy Story in the future. And Apple is much more of a constant race to continually improve things and stay ahead of the competition. His Role At Pixar At Pixar my job is to help build the studio and recruit people and help create a situation where they can do the best work of their lives. And to some degree it's the same at Apple. But at Pixar, I don't direct the movies, whereas at Apple probably, if I had to pick a role out of a film production, I'd be the director. So it...

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《Becoming Steve Jobs》Chapter 15 The Whole Widget

What the world did see was an effective and visionary leader at the height of his powers. These were complicated years for Apple, but Steve handled almost every challenge in exactly the manner he wanted. He had fallen into leadership at such a young age, but he was comfortable in that role now, and justifiably sure of his capacity to guide Apple’s tens of thousands of employees to the goals he set for them. During these years, he would ensure the company’s continued success in personal computers by engineering a deft switch to a new kind of microprocessor; ruthlessly and successfully managing some major transitions in his executive team; and optimizing and building upon the efficiency and ambition of the company’s product development “treadmill,” as Tim Cook describes it. This is also when he delivered what is likely to be remembered as the most notable product of his life, the iPhone, and then improved even that by pivoting once again into a strategy he personally had not wanted to pu...

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Foobar2000 组件安装教程

原作者博客地址汉化作者 Asion博客关于foobar 2000的一些资源前言 foobar2000 由于其软件架构特点以及开放的姿态，使得第三方很容易开发组件（component）来拓展它的功能。由于在官网下载的默认安装文件只带了少量几个默认的组件，满足不了使用的需求，例如：默认不带 ape，tta，tak 等音频文件格式的解码器，很多无损压缩格式音乐没法播放。所以自己下载安装组件是必备的基本技能。 foobar2000 的中文汉化版（Asion 汉化）为了方便使用，集成了无损压缩文件解码器以及一些其它有用的插件，安装时选上即可，不喜欢折腾的建议使用汉化版。这里组件指的是 foobar2000 标准组件（*.dll 文件），而非 vst 插件等其它插件，姑且把组件分为两类：官方组件：英文版安装包自带，安装时可选择；第三方组件：非官方自带的组件除了 foo_input_std.dll 和 foo_ui_std.dll 这两个组件是必须的外，其它的所有组件都非必需的，可以随需要增删。第三方组件可以去官网、官方论坛或者官方 wiki 去找，也可以去贴吧等地逛逛。下载还是要强调一下，这里说的是 foobar2000 component ，不是中文网上通常说的 vst 插件。下载好的组件包一般是 xxx.zip 或 xxx.fb2k-component 格式的文件，也有用 7z 打包的。前两种都是 zip 压缩（只要把 fb2k-component 改成 zip 文件就变成了 zip：包）。标准状况下压缩包里的内容结构应该是 xxx.zip yyy.dll README.txt (可能没有) LICENCE.txt (可能没有) (其它杂七杂八）除少数外一般只有一个 xxx.dll 文件.一定要注意压缩包结构不能是: xxx.zip yy folder (文件夹） zzz.dll … 否则要解压缩，提取那个 dll 文件。安装方法一（推荐）打开 foobar2000 的菜单文件 > 首选项(file >preferences) 的组件(components...

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巴菲特致股东信-1976年

笔记：为什么选择轻资产行业：当竞争疯狂时，不会强迫加入降价大战最终选择了费雪的思想，选择能理解的优秀企业，以合理的价格买入并长期拥有翻译：雪球：https://xueqiu.com/6217262310/131440258 备份：https://archive.ph/XLK0S 原文： To the Stockholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc, After two dismal years, operating results in 1976 improved significantly. Last year we said the degree of progress in insurance underwriting would determine whether our gain in earnings would be "moderate" or "major." As it turned out, earnings exceeded even the high end of our expectations. In large part, this was due to the outstanding efforts of Phil Liesche's managerial group at National Indemnity Company. In dollar terms, operating earnings came to $16,073,000, or $16.47 per share. While this is a record figure, we consider return on shareholders' equity to be a much more significant yardstick of economic performance. Here our result was 17.3%, moderately above our long-term average and even further above the average o...

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《Becoming Steve Jobs》Chapter 11 Do Your Level Best

As a mass-market consumer electronics device, the iPod would eventually be sold, of course, all the usual places: Best Buy, Circuit City, big-box department stores, and even the computer retailers like CompUSA. Steve disdained all these outlets. His obsession with his products continued well after they’d been manufactured. The tacky, low-margin hustle of these chains ran completely against the minimalist aesthetic of his products and the clean exuberance of his marketing. There was only one place where he really enjoyed seeing his products sold to the public: his own Apple stores, which had debuted four months ahead of the iPod. 觉得那些喧嚣、嘈杂的零售渠道，配不上自己极美的产品 Going back as far as the debut of the Mac, Steve had always groused about the way Apple computers were sold in its resellers’ stores. The way his computers were displayed and sold represented the very worst of what could go wrong when things weren’t done his way. The salespeople, always interested in quick turnover, seemed to make litt...

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《Becoming Steve Jobs》Chapter 16 Blind Spots, Grudges, and Sharp Elbows

Steve could be pretty thin-skinned when someone prominent criticized the aesthetics of his products. He took great umbrage that Neil would, as Steve put it, “pop off in public like that without coming to talk to us about his technical concerns first.” From that point on he had rebuffed all of Neil’s attempts to smoke the peace pipe. 有趣 He had blind spots, grating behavioral habits, and a tendency to give in to emotional impulse that persisted his entire life. These characteristics are often used to make the case that Steve was an “asshole” or a “jerk,” or perhaps simply “binary”—that odd adjective often used to convey the sense that he was half asshole/half genius from birth to death. These aren’t useful, interesting, or enlightening descriptions. What’s more illuminating is to take a look at the specific ways in which Steve failed to do an effective job of tempering some of his weaknesses and antisocial traits, and to consider how, when, and why some of them continued to flare up even...

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ISSUU使用指南--木喵

作者：木喵出处： Wonderworks 问：issuu是什么？答：Issuu是国外的一个在线文档共享网站，它是你的PDF文档发布专家。它类似于我们熟悉的youtube，但它共享的是文档、杂志之类的文本。简而言之、同志们想看国外的各种杂志？想找国外的汇报文本么？想借鉴国外学生的作品集么？那么你就要用到它啦~ 今天主要和大家讲两个方面一、如何在pc端使用和下载issuu上的pdf文档首先我们打开issuu的网址 https://issuu.com/ 我们可以很清楚的看到网页上呢都是国外的杂志以及一些作者自己制作的pdf文档首先我们点击右上角的 sign up 然后填写相关信息注册一个账户：注册完成之后我们就可以搜索我们想要找的资料：比如说，我想找一些分析图的资料，我们就搜索： architecture diagram 然后我们就可以看到相关的文档了：点击你所选择的文档，好了问题来了： sorry，this publication is not available 这个时候！就需要在用pc端的我们做一件必不可少的事：翻墙然后我们就能将页面刷新粗来了好、接下来是非常有建设性意义的一步怎样把我们网页上的文件下载下来呢？截图？ no~no~no~ 接下来，让木喵告诉你怎么下载：首先你需要复制上面的网址然后将 https://wenfan.hk/issuu/index_link.php 在另一个网址中打开将你之前复制的pdf的网址粘贴在下面的对话框中点击 I‘m not a robot 再点击 get it 然后会出现一堆网址代码我们全选打开你的迅雷点击新建将你之前的复制粘贴到下载链接里然后呢~我们就全都下载成功啦~ 然后我们回到之前的网页向下看我们可以看到有上传文档的作者（记得要关注哟）然后还有 info share stack ❤ 如果...

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产品随想 | 读《中国是部金融史》：第二章秦始皇统一了货币吗（秦朝）

战国时代什么最重要？答：人才！十地有的是，有人就能在土地上耕种，就能产出粮食。积攒人品、招揽居民的方法，就是变法。魏国的李悝、赵国的公仲连、楚国的吴起、韩国的申不害、齐国的邹忌⋯⋯七家诸侯都使出浑身解数鼓励别国的国民迁徙到自己的土地上—因为只有这样才能产出更多粮食，才能在战争的时候保证有兵源。 ──思路和现在的放开户口、人才引进，拉动GDP，是一样的所谓抑商也就三条。第一，秦国不能出现粮食贸易。(如果秦人买不到粮食就只能自己去种地，种地的人最实在) 第二，加重商税，重到任何贸易品种都无利可图。第三，降低商人地位。战国七雄，只有在秦困，商人才与赘婿并列为最低等的网人。货币是一枚一枚的铜钱，分散在国人手中，泰孝公如何能贪天下之利？只有禁绝货币，才能把所有利益都归于国君，国君才能更有势力（利出于一孔者，其国无敌）商鞅从来没有“重农”。他真实的想法是：民弱国强、国强民弱，所以，要想做最有权势的国君，就必须让天下人穷困（民弱国强、国强民弱，故有道之国务在弱民）！农、工、士、商四类人中，“农人〞必须依附于田宅，最缺乏流动性，手里也最没钱，是最容易管理的对象，也是最好的“弱民”。据说，商鞅“重农"的功绩在于给全国农人分配士地；据说，商鞅治下，每个男丁可以分配到一百亩土地。“百亩之田、五商之宅”是战国时代孟子的理想，最早出子《周礼》，到了《汉书》中居然成为商鞅的土地分配标准。就为这，商鞅被歌幼了几干年 ──蜜糖? 砒霜？商鞅之所以敢如此放心大胆地盘剥，是因为控制单一的农户比控制强大的宗族容易许多。毕竞宗族力量在一定程度上可以对抗王室，而被拆分为一个个家庭，就没有任何能力对抗封建集权。 ──破宗族，分田地至于农人，毫无血缘关系的五家被编成一“伍”。谁敢反抗，五个农户全体受罚，一般情况下会全被诛杀。即使有人跑出了家乡，只要在秦国境内，没有良民证的人也难免被抓获。没有良民证的结果就是被杀掉。 ──看到“良民证”，我想到了“核酸码” 商鞅认为，笨的人好管理（民&则易治也)。《诗经》《尚书》是周朝文化的代表，如果网人以《诗》《书》中的道理去蛊惑人心，有一个人，就能让上千人不再以耕战求富货；如果信奉《诗》《书》的人当了县官，就会有一个县的人不再尊敬国君；如果天下人都信奉《诗》《书》的道理，势必有人结党于下、议论政令，秦孝公的将不再是秦孝公的...

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