Parenting Quotes by Walter Isaacson

“So does that mean your real parents didn’t want you?”

— Walter Isaacson

“One of Steve Wozniak’s first memories was going to his father’s workplace on a weekend and being shown electronic parts, with his…

— Walter Isaacson

“The juxtaposition highlighted the shift from the interests of his father’s generation. “Mr. McCollum felt that electronics class was the new auto…

— Walter Isaacson

“Syrian-born graduate student in Wisconsin who became biological father of Jobs and Mona Simpson, later a food and beverage manager at the…

— Walter Isaacson

“his dad “putting them on a table with me so I got to play with them.” He watched with fascination as his…

— Walter Isaacson

I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and…

— Walter Isaacson

“Jobs’s overwrought reaction was understandable. Sculley had once been a father figure to him. So had Mike Markkula. So had Arthur Rock.…

— Walter Isaacson

“Woz spent a lot of time at home reading his father’s electronics journals, and he became enthralled by stories about new computers,”

— Walter Isaacson

“It’s one of the things in life I really feel ashamed about. I was not very sensitive, and I hurt their feelings.…

— Walter Isaacson

“receiver from Hallicrafters, the most sophisticated radios available. Woz spent a lot of time at home reading his father’s electronics journals, and…

— Walter Isaacson

“Despite the pecuniary spirit of Poor Richard’s sayings and the penny-saving reputation they later earned Franklin, he did not have the soul…

— Walter Isaacson

“The thrust of his parent's views, at least when applied to the situation of Mileva Maric rather than Marie Winteler, was that…

— Walter Isaacson