Quotes About Walter

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

It was an application of Markkula's admonition that it was

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

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

simply said that the Apple team knew the capabilities of the Be OS and asked if they

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

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

Numbers in roman type refer to illustrations in the Photos section; numbers in italics refer to book pages.

perhaps no matter how fast computers progress, artificial intelligence may never outstrip the intelligence of the human-machine partnership. Let

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

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

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.

He also speculated, correctly, that summer breezes do not by themselves cool people; instead, the cooling effect comes from the increased evaporation of human perspiration caused by the breeze.

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press or to Congressional committees. Thus the only way secrecy can be kept is to exclude from the making of the decision all those who

1956 conference at Dartmouth organized by John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky, where the field of artificial intelligence was launched.

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

Reasonable, sensible men can always make a reasonable scheme appear such to other reasonable men.

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

Man's knowledge of freedom, Kissinger argued, must come from an inner intuition.