Fearless Genius Quotes

“Management gave the team new marching orders: they had one more year to rewrite the entire million lines of code. A short time later, a young programmer named Ko Isono went home, loaded a pistol, and shot himself in the heart.”
― Doug Menuez, Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley 1985-2000

“After forcing Steve out, John grew Apple from $800 million to $8 billion a year in revenue.”
― Doug Menuez, Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley 1985-2000

“Once, while watching Steve berate an employee, Ross said, “Steve reminds me of myself when I was his age [thirty], but then I learned you catch more flies with honey.”
― Doug Menuez, Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley 1985-2000

“Virtual-reality pioneer Jaron Lanier worries that in the future we’ll be able to upload our brains into a “hive mind.” We’ll leave our bodies behind to achieve immortality, but will end up working forever as slaves tasked with writing free Wikipedia entries all day.”
― Doug Menuez, Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley 1985-2000

“Since 2000, no important technology innovation in the United States has been scaled up to create millions of manufacturing, marketing, and engineering jobs here, as personal computers and related industries did. While selling online and social networking are clearly transformational movements that have created entrepreneurial opportunities, fewer than fifty thousand traditional jobs—those with full-time hours, benefits, and health insurance—have been created.”
― Doug Menuez, Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley 1985-2000