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Walter Isaacson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: May 20
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I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.
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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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What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft. They’re causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.
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There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth
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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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Vision w/o execution is just hallucination. You need the right combination of visionary + team that can execute
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I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.
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If you want to be a great American, you have got to understand Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, how the American Revolution happened. I think if you want to be a good citizen of the digital age, it helps to feel comfortable with both the people and the ways of thinking that created the digital revolution.
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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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It's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others.
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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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Sometimes, to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet, a practice that was not as soothing for his collegues.
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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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Innovation requires articulation.
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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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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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if you can't keep him interested, that's your fault.
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Most innovation comes from people working together, collaborating in teams.
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Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.
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Let's crowd source, curate, and add royalties to books
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