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We're all swimming in this digital revolution that we live in.
Walter Isaacson
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Walter Isaacson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: May 20
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Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book. (Steven Levy)
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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 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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Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
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The best and most innovative products don't always win...(it's an) aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked
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People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.
Walter Isaacson
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.
Walter Isaacson
On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?
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The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s. When Steve was two they adopted a girl they named Patty, and three years later they moved to a tract house in the suburbs.
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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 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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When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
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I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings.
Walter Isaacson
Vision w/o execution is just hallucination. You need the right combination of visionary + team that can execute
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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.
Walter Isaacson
I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant
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We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.
Walter Isaacson
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.
Walter Isaacson
What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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