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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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Walter Isaacson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: May 20
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Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.
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Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
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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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The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s. When Steve was two they adopted a girl they named Patty, and three years later they moved to a tract house in the suburbs.
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Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.
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if you can't keep him interested, that's your fault.
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