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Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
Walter Isaacson
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Walter Isaacson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: May 20
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You and I love understanding American Revolution, but let's also understand the digital revolution, because that makes us more comfortable with our technology.
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I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.
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It's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others.
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One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such men make this cosmos and its construction the pivot of their emotional life, in order to find the peace and security which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
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Leonardo da Vinci was lucky to be born the same year that Johannes Gutenberg opened his printing shop. As a young person, he could get information about whatever struck his curiosity. The Internet is to our age what Gutenberg's press was to his, so he would have loved being alive today.
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Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
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