For a while Jobs let Catmull and Smith run Pixar without much interference. 有那么一段时间，乔布斯没有进行过多干预，让卡特穆尔和史密斯自行掌管皮克斯。 Every month or so they would gather for a board meeting, 每隔一...
The chief financial officer at Lucasfilm found Jobs arrogant and prickly, 卢卡斯影业的CFO发现乔布斯傲慢又易怒， so when it came time to hold a meeting of all the players, he told Catmull, We have to establish the right pecking order....
Lucasfilm's Computer Division 卢卡斯影业的电脑部门 When Jobs was losing his footing at Apple in the summer of 1985, 1985年夏天，乔布斯在苹果公司正处于失势中。 he went for a walk with Alan Kay, who had been at Xerox PARC a...
When the hype died down, the reaction to the NeXT computer was muted, especially since it was not yet commercially available. 当宣传炒作平息下来后，市场对NeXT电脑的反应平淡，尤其是它还未上市销售。 Bill Joy, the brilli...
As would become his standard practice, 乔布斯和媒体打交道已经有了自己的标准做法， Jobs offered to provide exclusive interviews to anointed publications in return for their promising to put the story on the cover. 他给自己钦点...
There was another disappointment that he tried to downplay: 而NeXT还有一个令人失望之处，最后乔布斯竭力含糊其辞。 Early next year, we will have our 0.9 release, 明年初，我们将会推出0.9版， which is for software deve...
After the applause, he used the quotations book to make a more subtle point, about his reality distortion field. 掌声过后，他用《牛津引语词典》展示了更巧妙的一点，关于他的现实扭曲力场观点。 The quote he chose was...
One of Jobs's management philosophies was that it is crucial, 乔布斯的管理理念之一就是， every now and then, to roll the dice and bet the company on some new idea or technology. 不时地孤注一掷，把公司压在一些新点子或技术...
These and other stories were incorporated into the mythologized story of Jobs that Perot told wherever he went. 佩罗走到哪儿都会讲起这些关于乔布斯的传奇。 At a briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, 在华盛顿的国家...
Perot brought to NeXT something that was almost as valuable as his $20 million lifeline: 除了2000万美元的救命钱，佩罗也为NeXT公司带来了几乎同样宝贵的其他东西： He was a quotable, spirited cheerleader for the company, 他是...
