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Walter Isaacson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: May 20
Biographer
Journalist
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Requires
Articulation
Innovation

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I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s the great mystery. (Steve Jobs)
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Let's crowd source, curate, and add royalties to books
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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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I am a fruitarian and I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight - Steve Jobs
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The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand.
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If you act like you can do something, then it will work.
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The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don’t really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music.
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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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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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Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.
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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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Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
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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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One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.
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I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people on so you can beat them up or, you know, make fools out of them or something
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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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Most innovation comes from people working together, collaborating in teams.
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Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?
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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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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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