When you open the box of an iPhone or iPad, we want that tactile experience to set the tone for how you perceive the product. - Walter Isaacson

The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.

His lack of reverence for authority and his willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature that foreshadowed the scientific method developed more than a century later by Bacon and Galileo. His method was rooted in experiment, curiosity, and the ability to marvel at phenomena that the rest of us rarely pause to ponder after we’ve outgrown our wonder years.

I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis,” he later said.