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He was particularly good at apprehending movement, from the motions of a flapping wing to the emotions flickering across a face.

His notebooks have been rightly called "the most astonishing testament to the powers of human observation and imagination ever set down on paper.

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

that he asked to have input in designing a new version. I was both amused and willing, so I readily assented. I ended up having more than forty interviews and conversations with him. Some were formal ones in his Palo Alto living room

He was furious, and that was reflected in his passion to start what was, no matter how he spun it, a rival company.

This was fortunate. He would have made a poor notary: he got bored and distracted too easily, especially when a project became routine rather than creative.14

The ability of Isaacson to write books that capture an age as well as a man makes him one of our best and most important biographers. Steve Jobs shows Isaacson at his best." —Foreign

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Laurene Powell, said bluntly, "If you're ever going to do a book on Steve, you'd better do it now." He had just taken a second

I ended up having more than forty interviews and conversations with him.

from Morgan Stanley, which was a pretty uptight firm in those days," recalled

Markkula and some others could never quite appreciate Jobs's obsession with typography.

considerable achievement, a thorough and insightful look into the life of Apple's visionary' The Times

He would go on fasts, just as he did as a teenager, and he became sanctimonious as he lectured others at the table on the virtues of whatever eating regimen he was following

Von Neumann was another innovator who stood at the intersection of the humanities and sciences.

Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.

Sutil es el Señor, pero malicioso no lo es.

some forms of RNA could likewise be enzymes. Specifically, they found that some RNA molecules can split themselves by sparking a chemical reaction. They dubbed these catalytic RNAs "ribozymes

Franklin would find himself more attracted to people who were practical and reliable rather than dreamy and romantic.

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Talmud brought him science books, including a popular illustrated series called People's Books on Natural Science

Time cannot be absolutely defined, and there is an inseparable relation between time and signal velocity." More

auditorium and ambled down the aisle. Amelio had told the gathering that Jobs

There is some difference between them and sheep: Sheep will never make any insurrections.