Quotes from Walter Isaacson

If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much. Mr.

An engineer's engineer, Eckert felt that people like himself were necessary complements to physicists such as Mauchly. "A physicist is one who's concerned with the truth," he later said. "An engineer is one who's concerned with getting the job done.

But I don't have any skeletons in my closet that can't be allowed out.

I cried in my office as he was showing me the idea, and I still cry when I think about it.

The ongoing hostilities involving the French and their shifting alliances with Italian city-states often resembled pageantry and processionals more than war. "A march through Italy was an occasion for feasts, spectacles, firework displays, jousts, the expropriation of estates, and occasional massacres," wrote Robert Payne. "The French aristocracy acquired new titles, new experiences, new mistresses, new diseases."1

He was a taut, tattooed engine mechanic, six feet tall, with a passing resemblance to James Dean.

He believed in eating nothing but fruits and starchless vegetables, which he said prevented the body from forming harmful

of months, he began encouraging people to talk to me, even foes and former girlfriends. Nor did he try to put anything off-limits. "I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was twenty-three and the way I handled that," he said. "But I don't have any

predijo que Apple vendería un millón de canciones en seis meses. En vez de eso, la tienda iTunes vendió un millón de canciones en seis días.

Empiece por los detalles.

Why in the world would you involve Steve in a decision like this?" Amelio replied, getting angry. "Steve is not even a member of the board of directors, so what the hell is he doing in any of this conversation?" But Woolard didn't back down, and Amelio hung up to carry on with the family picnic before telling his wife.

Perhaps the oddest meeting was when Dr. Dre came to visit Jobs at Apple headquarters. Jobs loved the Beatles

John McCarthy, a Santa Claus lookalike who coined the term artificial intelligence

When I look into most people's eyes, I see a soul. When I look into your eyes, I see a bottomless pit, an empty hole, a dead zone." Then she walked away.

Here is our gentle and beloved Leonardo, who became a vegetarian because of his fondness for all creatures, wallowing in horrifying depictions of death.

porque Leonardo da Vinci constituye el paradigma del principal tema de mis anteriores biografías: que la capacidad de establecer conexiones entre diferentes disciplinas —artes y ciencias, humanidades y tecnología— es la clave de la innovación, de la imaginación y del genio.

Likewise, what emphasis should be put on great individuals versus on cultural currents has long been a matter of dispute;

If he was displeased, he might scream and get hopping mad and use expletives, but he wouldn't do it in a way that would totally destroy the person he was talking to. It was just his way to get the person to do a better job.

Let the perfect be the enemy of the good. When Leonardo could not make the perspective in the Battle of Anghiari or the interaction in the Adoration of the Magi work perfectly, he abandoned them rather than produce a work that was merely good enough. He carried around masterpieces such as his Saint Anne and the Mona Lisa to the end, knowing there would always be a new stroke he could add.

I've learned over the years that when you have really good people you don't have to baby them," Jobs later explained. "By expecting them to do great things, you can get them to do great things.

Vea cosas que no se ven.

the ideal chief executive as an outside person, an inside person, and a person of action.

That's marijuana." It was one of the few times in his life that he faced his father's anger. "That was the only real fight I ever got in with my dad," he

treat you like a criminal," he said, showing a slide of an inmate in striped prison garb. Then a slide of Bob Dylan came on the screen. "People want to own the music they love.