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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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Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?
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On Startups: I hate it when people call themselves entrepreneurs when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on.
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I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.
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Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.
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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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Most innovation comes from people working together, collaborating in teams.
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Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.
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It's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others.
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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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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 discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company. The whole notion of how you build a company is fascinating. Steve Jobs
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Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.
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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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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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Most of the collaborations of technology were done by teams...Collaboration is key to creativity
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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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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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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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Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.
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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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