Parenting Quote by Walter Isaacson

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

— Walter Isaacson

“in Computer Science I. He had just started his sophomore year and was dabbling in the intro class for computer science majors. Growing up…

— Jeffrey J. Selingo

“I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics,” he said. “Then I read something that one…

— Anonymous

“Immediately after graduating, with honors, from Emory University in the summer of 1990, McCandless dropped out of sight. He changed his name, gave the…

— Jon Krakauer

“Sadness was the driver, the motor of his invention, the engine of his creativity.”

— Charles Yu

“Steve Jobs for instance reflected on his feelings about being fired from Apple. Here is what he said: “I didn’t see it then, but…

— Life Hacks Books

“Despite his new fame and fortune, he still fancied himself a child of the counterculture. On a visit to a Stanford class, he took…

— Walter Isaacson

“Today’s schoolchildren and college students can imagine little else but the search for a lucrative job.”

— Tony Judt

“Fully aware that life is too short for the choice to be anything but irreparable, he had been distressed to discover that he felt…

— Milan Kundera

“Besides, the brothers did have some equipment that couldn’t be readily copied. They had a specially fabricated aluminum griddle for one thing, and the…

— Ray Kroc

“After awhile, life becomes technical college. You can’t be anything you want to be. You can be, like, twenty things. That’s it.” - "Refund"…

— Ryan Werner

“To the extent a school is like a factory,”

— Warren Berger