Time Quotes by Walter Isaacson

Steve Jobs: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

— Walter Isaacson

“There’s a time to wink as well as to see ”

— Walter Isaacson

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it” and “People who are serious about software should make their own…

— Walter Isaacson

“But I did learn from Leonardo how a desire to marvel about the world that we encounter each day can make each…

— Walter Isaacson

“Leonardo at twenty-nine was more easily distracted by the future than he was focused on the present.”

— Walter Isaacson

“We spoke about furniture in theory for eight years,” recalled Powell. “We spent a lot of time asking ourselves, ‘What is the…

— Walter Isaacson

“Time cannot be absolutely defined, and there is an inseparable relation between time and signal velocity.” More”

— Walter Isaacson

“The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.”

— Walter Isaacson

“But for the time being the personality clashes were manageable, mainly because the company was doing so well.”

— Walter Isaacson

I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour…

— Walter Isaacson

I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he…

— Walter Isaacson

Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. “There is no one better at turning off…

— Walter Isaacson

“By 2001 Apple had revived its personal computer offerings. It was now time to think different. A set of new possibilities topped…

— Walter Isaacson

“Another time, he was playing [chess] with his equal, the Duchess of Bourbon, who made a move that inadvertently exposed her king.…

— Walter Isaacson

I think Leonardo da Vinci teaches us the value of both being focused on things that fascinate us but also, at times,…

— Walter Isaacson

“That Tuesday afternoon, he kept staring into his children’s eyes. At one point he looked at Patty and his children for a…

— Walter Isaacson

“There would be times when we'd rack our brains on a user interface problem, and think we'd considered every option, and he…

— Walter Isaacson

“Steve and I spent a lot of time on the packaging," said Ive. " I love the process of unpacking something. You…

— Walter Isaacson

“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much.…

— Walter Isaacson

“When it came time to announce the price of the new machine, Jobs did what he would often do in product demonstrations:…

— Walter Isaacson

“Jobs liked to tell the story- and he did so to his team that day- about how everything that he had done…

— Walter Isaacson

“Look longer at the picture. It vibrates with Leonardo’s understanding that no moment is discrete, self-contained, frozen, delineated, just as no boundary…

— Walter Isaacson

“More than anyone else of his time, he made products that were completely innovative, combining the power of poetry and processors. With…

— Walter Isaacson

“Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical. He…

— Walter Isaacson

“There are historical moments when an alignment of forces causes a shift in human outlook. It happened to art and philosophy and…

— Walter Isaacson

“Hume applied his skeptical rigor to the concept of time. It made no sense, he said, to speak of time as having…

— Walter Isaacson

“This is also, I hope, a book about innovation. At a time when the United States is seeking ways to sustain its…

— Walter Isaacson

“One way to understand that Einstein was talking about invariance, rather than declaring everything to be relative, is to think about how…

— Walter Isaacson

“The tongue of a woodpecker can extend more than three times the length of its bill. When not in use, it retracts…

— Walter Isaacson

“Instead, this time he made what he called a “slight modification” to his theory. To keep the matter in the universe from…

— Walter Isaacson

“Was [Steve Jobs] smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical.…

— Walter Isaacson

“Every time I’d design something great, Steve would find a way to make money for us,” said Wozniak.”

— 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

Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.

— Walter Isaacson

“Although Jobs later said that he was not plotting to take over Apple at the time, Ellison thought it was inevitable. "…

— Walter Isaacson

“Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future. " If anybody was…

— Walter Isaacson

Especially right after 9/11. Especially when the war in Afghanistan is going on. There was a real sense that you don't get…

— Walter Isaacson

“Under Steve Jobs, there's zero tolerance for not performing," its CEO said. At another point, when VLSI Technology was having trouble delivering…

— Walter Isaacson