Wednesday 19 September 2012

from Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

'... One of Jobs's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalising yourself. "If you don't cannibalise yourself, someone else will," he said.'

it could be shorten as "sometimes, when you don't give a fuck, you get a fuck."


'... Bach, he declared, was his favourite classical composer. He was particularly fond of listening to the contrasts between the two versions of the "Goldberg Variations" that Glenn Gould recorded, the first in 1955 as a twenty-two-year-old little-known pianist and the second in 1981, a year before he died. "They're like night and day," Jobs said after plating them sequentially one afternoon. "The first is an exuberant, young, brilliant piece, played so fast it's a revelation. The later one is so much more spare and stark. You sense a very deep soul who's been through a lot in life. It's deeper and wiser."...'

i was used to be fond of András Schiff's recording only, but it's gonna be... well, i will tell you guys later :)

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