All Walter Isaacson Quotes
- It's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others. Giving
- I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes… Bitter
- If you truly have a passion for what you do, you will care even about the parts unseen. Care
- Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title.… Apple
- Jobs did not know that Sculley had told Eisenstat he wanted to quit, but by then it didn't matter. Overnight, he had changed his mind… Afternoon
- For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence. Evidence
- I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done. Big
- What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box. Able
- You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture. Computer
- Innovation requires articulation. Articulation
- Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box. Ability
- When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try… Balance
- I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering. Creative
- 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… Corrupt
- Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change. Avoid
- 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. All
- I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to… Asked
- Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet. Civilization
- When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human. Amazing
- I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different… Actually Think
- Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic… Ability
- 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… Any
- There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth Extremely
- The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he said. "The hierarchical… Anarchic
- Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. Artist