Walter Isaacson Quotes

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• Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to…
• Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to…
• More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were…
• I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
• Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?
• In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on…
• 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…
• 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…
• I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create…
• I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people on so you…
• 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 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…
• 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…
• And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
• I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps…
• 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…
• 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.
• I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more…
• 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…
• Let's crowd source, curate, and add royalties to books

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