Backgrounds Quote by Walter Isaacson

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

— Walter Isaacson

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

— 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 has happened…

— 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 out distractions.…

— 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 philosophy: “Simplicity…

— 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 else views…

— 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 Homestead High,…

— 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. You have…

— Walter Isaacson

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

— Walter Isaacson