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Walter Isaacson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: May 20
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I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.
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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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I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the digital one was when I was his age.
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By the end of his career, he [Steve Jobs] has proven that he can do the impossible, and he has gathered probably the most loyal team of eight players of any business in America.
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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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The best and most innovative products don't always win...(it's an) aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked
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People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.
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Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
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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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Without Steve Jobs, you would have well-designed computers, probably open and not integrated, but they wouldn't have sex appeal, they wouldn't have romance.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
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Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.
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Most innovation comes from people working together, collaborating in teams.
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I think America is really well-positioned, because we do train people to be creative and sometimes resist authority, which helps in being an innovator. I think you're going to see for the next phase of the revolution all sorts of wonderful ways of connecting art and literature and journalism into new forms of digital expression.
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Jobs did not know that Sculley had told Eisenstat he wanted to quit, but by then it didn't matter. Overnight, he had changed his mind and decided to stay. Despite the blowup the day before, he was still eager for Jobs to like him. So he agreed to meet the next afternoon.
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One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.
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