Quotes from Walter Isaacson

key challenge for managers is how to strike a balance between being decisive and being collegial

The result is a whirlwind of drama and emotion. Not only did Leonardo render each of the reactions of those first beholding the Christ child, but he turned the Epiphany into a swirl in which each character is swept by the others' emotions, and then so is the viewer.

Because I didn't know it couldn't be done, I was enabled to do it.

Plus, for Steve, less is always more, simpler is always better. Therefore, if you can build a glass box with fewer elements, it's better, it's simpler, and it's at the forefront of technology. That's where Steve likes to be, in both his products and his stores.

Leonardo said so himself. "Intellectual passion drives out sensuality," he wrote in one of his notebooks.

Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

His paper, titled "Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits," was published in the April 1965 issue of Electronics magazine.

like it. It sounded almost disco, and he gloomily argued that Dylan had been going downhill since Blood on the Tracks. So Hertzfeld moved the needle to the last song on the album, "Dark Eyes," which was a simple acoustic number featuring Dylan

their ability to work as teams made them even more creative. The tale of their teamwork is important because we don't often focus on how central that skill is to innovation.

But even when he was engaged in blue-sky thinking, his science was not a separate endeavor from his art. Together they served his driving passion, which was nothing less than knowing everything there was to know about the world, including how we fit into it. He had a reverence for the wholeness of nature and a feel for the harmony of its patterns, which he saw replicated in phenomena large and small.

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Throughout her life, she excelled at being able to translate scientific problems—such as those involving trajectories, fluid flows, explosions, and weather patterns—into mathematical equations and then into ordinary English. This talent helped to make her a good programmer.

He who is abandoned is an abandoner.

New ideas occur when a lot of random notions churn together until they coalesce.

Deep Blue ganó aquel torneo de ajedrez por la fuerza bruta, ya que era capaz de evaluar 200 millones de posiciones por segundo y compararlas con 700.000 jugadas

Isaacson is to be commended for explaining the genius of Jobs in fascinating fashion, launching a discussion that could reach infinity and beyond." —The Christian Science Monitor "Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs comes as a breath of fresh air . . . a reliable and captivating guide to a man who reshaped the computing industry

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 skeletons in my closet that can't be allowed out." He didn't seek any control over what I wrote, or even ask to read it in advance. His only involvement came when my publisher was choosing the cover

The Pirates Abandon Ship Upon his return from Europe in August 1985, while he was casting about for what to

He replied that he wished he had thought of that, but hadn't. That started an exchange about the early history of Apple, and

He who can go to the fountain does not go to the water-jar.

Hey, if we're going to make things in our life, we might as well make them beautiful.

Instead, what I try to convey to all those who come up to me with a simple reaction is that it's important to look at Jobs not as a saint or a sinner but as a complex and intense and spiritual human whose strengths and flaws were tightly interwoven. People are complicated. Great geniuses are even more complicated. And Steve Jobs was one of the most complicated geniuses of our day and generation.

Study of light hitting a head.

It conjured up memories of what he sounded like when he was young, and how, as in his favorite Dylan song, he had remained forever young. "They push the human race forward