Apple CEO Tim Cook says neither a degree nor coding skills get you hired at Apple :
"People that code, People that don't" . Even though he calls coding "the only global language that we all share."
Instead, he screens for three traits: collaboration rooted in deep belief that "one plus one equals three," genuine curiosity about how things and people work, and creativity that lets people "see around the corner."
The logic is that research tells you what customers want today, but only a person can sense what they'll need in three years.
As Cook puts it, the goal is to "get ahead of the curve" and together these traits make a great team player.
Today, as Warren steps down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, I am thinking about his lasting impact. Warren believed in Apple before anyone else, and we will never forget it. Thank you Warren and congratulations to Howard, who will be a wonderful chairman.
THE ODYSSEY is now officially Universal’s highest-grossing film of all time, surpassing JURASSIC WORLD.
It’s also now the biggest film of Nolan’s career and the highest-grossing movie ever for Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway and Robert Pattinson.
Larry Page on why you need to dream big:
"I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name."
Steve Jobs in 1980 on why he named the company Apple:
“Because I like apples and because it comes ahead of Atari in the phone book...I used to work at Atari.”
The first commercial computer was unveiled on this day in 1951.
It weighed 16,000 pounds.
Smartphones today weighs less than half a pound.
And are millions of times more powerful.