Quotes About Walter

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist.

I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.

Caltech honored me -- they named an asteroid after me. There's only two of them up there with names. One of them is Walter Cronkite. The other is Tommy Lasorda.

Oswald is an interesting character. Disney lost the rights to him in 1928 to Universal, who was distributing the cartoons and basically handed him over to Walter Lantz.

Right now, if there's a gender gap problem, it's not Ronald Reagan with women; it's with Walter Mondale with men.

In the world's structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his convictions.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

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

At one point I emailed to ask if it was true, as my daughter had told me, that the Apple logo was an homage to Alan Turing, the British computer pioneer who broke the German wartime codes and then committed suicide by biting into a cyanide-laced apple. He replied that he wished he had thought of that, but hadn't.

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

One must apply the greatest artistry in three things," Alberti wrote, "walking in the city, riding a horse, and speaking, for in each of these one must try to please everyone."12 Leonardo mastered all three.

visionario pasó a ser un alucinado, lo que lo convirtió en un caso práctico de mal liderazgo.

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

told me, that the Apple logo was an homage to Alan Turing, the British computer pioneer who broke the

That started an exchange about the early history

shared a bond: Lewin had written a Princeton thesis

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

Publicity whiz who guided Jobs early on and remained a trusted advisor. M

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

occasional bursts of intensity, especially when he was launching a new product that he wanted on the cover of Time or featured on CNN, places where I'd worked. But

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