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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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If you act like you can do something, then it will work.
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It's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others.
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Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.
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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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On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?
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i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.
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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 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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I think Leonardo da Vinci teaches us the value of both being focused on things that fascinate us but also, at times, being distracted and deciding to pursue some shiny new idea that you happen to stumble upon. Balancing intense focus with being interested in a whole lot of different things is something that we have to do in the Internet age.
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People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.
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For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
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I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s the great mystery. (Steve Jobs)
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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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