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Walter Isaacson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: May 20
Biographer
Journalist
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New Orleans
Louisiana
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Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?
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For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
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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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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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But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.
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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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Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.
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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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Vision w/o execution is just hallucination. You need the right combination of visionary + team that can execute
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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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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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A theme of digital success is keeping it simple.
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Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
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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 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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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
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I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.
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Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.
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If you act like you can do something, then it will work.
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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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