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Innovation requires articulation.

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Walter Isaacson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: May 20
Biographer
Journalist
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Articulation
Innovation
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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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A theme of digital success is keeping it simple.
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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 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 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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People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.
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Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.
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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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Most innovation comes from people working together, collaborating in teams.
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I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different.
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One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters
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Let's crowd source, curate, and add royalties to books
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It's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others.
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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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Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
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I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.
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I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
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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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More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.
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