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It's nice, Tom. I never milked in a barn so nice.

Franklin asserted his conservatism more forcefully. Most notable was an anonymous piece entitled "On the Laboring Poor," which he signed "Medius

wanted to let Jobs go, but Bushnell worked out a solution. "The smell and behavior wasn't an issue

His persistence baffled me. He was known to guard his privacy, and I had no reason to believe he'd ever read any of my books.

I'm not sure," Atkinson replied. "Maybe six months." It was a wildly optimistic assessment, but also a motivating one.

Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been the chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, and Kissinger: A Biography, and is the coauthor, with Evan Thomas, of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He and his wife live in Washington

Lower Manhattan to tell me that whatever he was touting was the best thing he had ever produced. I liked him.

school, he wandered through the Midwest picking up work as a

But for the time being the personality clashes were manageable, mainly because the company was doing so well.

That started an exchange about the early history

shared a bond: Lewin had written a Princeton thesis

read it." But later that fall he seemed to have second thoughts about cooperating and, though I didn't know it, was hit

strong personality was the topic that most interested me in my biographies of Franklin

there many afternoons to seek him out. He was entranced

It was a story filled with the most unhappy, mean characters that I've ever seen.

The same traits that make them inventive, such as stubbornness and focus, can make them resistant to change when new ideas come along.

Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute

had known him since 1984, when he came to Manhattan to have lunch with Time's editors

Savvy and good-humored Penn graduate, went to Goldman Sachs and then Stanford Business School, married Steve Jobs in 1991.

Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.

He pretended to be interested in technology, but he wasn't. He was a marketing guy, and that is what marketing guys are: paid poseurs.

It was Sunday, June 29, 1975, a milestone for the personal computer.

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his dad "putting them on a table with me so I got to play with them." He watched with fascination as his father tried to get a waveform line on