"When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben……" — Walter Isaacson
"When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human."
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84 Quotes by Walter Isaacson
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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…
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Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a…
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More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the…
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I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
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Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to…
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I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom…
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I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least…
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I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents'…
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I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just…
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We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and…
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward…
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