Quotes from Walter Isaacson

By war's end Eisenhower had not only masterfully completed the acquisition and deployment of his chosen leadership techniques but succeeded in projecting their appeal to wide segments of the American public. Both political parties sought him as a presidential candidate.

The general laws of nature are to be expressed by equations that hold true for all systems of coordinates, that is they are covariant with respect to any substitutions whatever.

I mention "mosaic," a term often used in biology. "That's a better description than grayscale," she says. "And frankly that's true for all of us. All of us, if we're honest with ourselves, know that we have things that we're great at and things that we're not so great at.

Eisenhower, in short, had perfected the art of playing against his assigned role, first as a nonmilitary general and later as a nonpolitical president. This deliberately cultivated style had proved enormously successful in war. How would it work in the White House?

Franklin's own idea was more expansive: he believed in encouraging and providing opportunities for all people to succeed based on their diligence

As long as I am able to work, I must not and will not complain, because work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

researchers at the height of the coronavirus crisis were posting more than a hundred papers a day on preprint servers, such as medRxiv and bioRxiv, that were free and open

El distintivo de una empresa innovadora no es solo ser la primera en tener nuevas ideas, también es saber cómo dar un salto al frente cuando se encuentra rezagada.

Being "disputatious," he concluded, was "a very bad habit" because contradicting people produced "disgusts and perhaps enmities.

His ideal was of a prosperous middle class whose members lived simple lives of democratic equality," writes James Campbell. "Those who met with greater economic success in life were responsible to help those in genuine need; but those who from lack of virtue failed to pull their own weight could expect no help from society.

he "dropped my abrupt contradiction" style of argument and "put on the humbler enquirer" of the Socratic method.

In a paper he wrote in the spring of 1907, he began by exuding a joyful self-assurance about having neither the library nor the inclination to know what other theorists had written on the topic. "Other authors might have already clarified part of what I am going to say," he wrote. "I felt I could dispense with doing a literature search (which would have been very troublesome for me), especially since there is good reason to hope that others will fill this gap.

Decidir qué es lo que no se debe hacer es tan importante como decidir qué se debe hacer —comentó—. Esto es válido para las empresas y es válido para los productos.

Violence breeds violence

he did criticize his son for his weak and un-persuasive writing style. In reaction, the precocious young teen devised for himself a self-improvement course

To distress is to weaken, and weakening the children weakens the whole family.

En su madurez, Einstein creía más firmemente que había una realidad «objetiva» que existía con independencia de que nosotros pudiésemos observarla o no. La creencia en un mundo externo independiente de la persona que lo observaba —diría repetidamente— era la base de toda ciencia.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.

People like you and me never grow old," he wrote a friend later in life. "We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.

All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace.11 Empezaba así: Me gusta pensar (¡y cuanto antes, mejor!) en un prado cibernético donde mamíferos y ordenadores vivan juntos en mutua armonía programada como el agua pura tocando el cielo despejado.

We have squandered a lot of time on this, and the result looks like a gift from the devil's grandmother.

Only through the personal awareness and "inward conviction" that we each have of our own freedom, Kissinger concluded.

On the other hand, he stressed in scores of letters and statements that Americans should not let the fear of communism cause them to surrender the civil liberties and freedom of thought that they cherished. There were a lot of domestic communists in England, but the people there did not get themselves whipped into a frenzy by internal security investigations, he pointed out. Americans need not either.

Por mucho énfasis que debamos poner en el liderazgo, la organización y el trabajo en equipo, el individuo sigue siendo determinante, de una importancia suprema. Las ideas y los conceptos creativos nacen en la mente de una sola persona.