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You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

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Walter Isaacson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: May 20
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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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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 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 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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There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth
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for Steve, less is always more, simpler is always better. Therefore, if you can build a glass box with fewer elements, it’s better, it’s simpler, and it’s at the forefront of technology. That’s where Steve likes to be, in both his products and his stores.
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Innovation requires articulation.
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I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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Mainly, the reason people who didn't succeed had trouble because they had trouble forming teams. They didn't know how to collaborate.
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When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
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I am a fruitarian and I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight - Steve Jobs
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Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened... I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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Leonardo da Vinci was lucky to be born the same year that Johannes Gutenberg opened his printing shop. As a young person, he could get information about whatever struck his curiosity. The Internet is to our age what Gutenberg's press was to his, so he would have loved being alive today.
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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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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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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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When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
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