Walter Isaacson

“he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in…

— Walter Isaacson

He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So…

— Walter Isaacson

But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this…

— Walter Isaacson

“There was never a good knife made of bad steel ”

— Walter Isaacson

“Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter…

— Walter Isaacson

“Atop the brochure McKenna put a maxim, often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, that would become the defining precept of Jobs’s design…

— Walter Isaacson

“The company began attracting influential new investors.”

— Walter Isaacson

“You have to remain critically vigilant.” Question every premise, challenge conventional wisdom, and never accept the truth of something merely because everyone…

— Walter Isaacson

“in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s girlfriend at…

— Walter Isaacson

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

— 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

“There was a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur…

— Walter Isaacson

“CEO Gil Amelio stumbled. Ellison may have been baffled when Jobs insisted that he was not motivated by money, but it was…

— Walter Isaacson

“Once a year Jobs took his most valuable employees on a retreat, which he called " The Top 100." They were picked…

— Walter Isaacson

“An object will display the greatest difference of light and shade when it is seen in the strongest light. . . .…

— Walter Isaacson

A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean…

— Walter Isaacson

I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally…

— Walter Isaacson

“Apple’s graphical user interface. Just as Jobs was being eased out of Apple in 1985, John Sculley had struck a surrender deal:…

— Walter Isaacson

“He showed me the rudiments of electronics, and I got very interested in that.” Even more interesting were the trips to scavenge…

— Walter Isaacson

“So I asked him to go on the night shift. It was a way”

— Walter Isaacson

“Look, Steve, you’re my best friend, and Apple is your company. I’ll do whatever you want.”

— Walter Isaacson

A theme of digital success is keeping it simple.

— Walter Isaacson

“We scientists in particular must foster internationalism,” he said. “Unfortunately, we have had to suffer serious disappointments even among scientists in this…

— Walter Isaacson

“This wariness of authority reflected the most fundamental of all of Einstein’s moral principles: Freedom and individualism are necessary for creativity and…

— Walter Isaacson

“I had a real revelation. We were all in robes, and they made some Turkish coffee for us. The professor explained how…

— Walter Isaacson