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One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.

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Walter Isaacson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: May 20
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New Orleans
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You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last. Excerpt From: Walter, Isaacson. “Steve Jobs.” Simon & Schuster, 2011-10-23T21:00:00+00:00. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.
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If you act like you can do something, then it will work.
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I used to be an angry man myself. I’m a recovering assaholic so I could recognize that in Steve. (quoting Jean-Louis Gassée)
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Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.
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The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don’t really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music.
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I think that notion of being a seeker, somebody who never felt totally fulfilled, but was always passionate about the search, that comes from the background, probably.
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Let's crowd source, curate, and add royalties to books
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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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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Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.
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Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.
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I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.
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We're all swimming in this digital revolution that we live in.
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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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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
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If you truly have a passion for what you do, you will care even about the parts unseen.
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if you can't keep him interested, that's your fault.
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It seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan ...[Showing the misery of Afghanistan ran the risk of] promoting enemy propaganda...we must talk about how the Taliban are using civilian shields and how the Taliban have harboured the terrorists responsible for killing close up to 5,000 innocent people.
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Innovation requires articulation.
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I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
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