Quotes About Walter Isaacson

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

Partly because of the poor sales of the Cube, Apple produced

Gates's "Letter to Hobbyists," complaining about the unauthorized sharing of Microsoft BASIC, asked in a chiding way, "Who can afford to do professional work for nothing?" Torvalds found that an odd outlook. He and Gates were from two very different cultures, the communist-tinged radical academia of Helsinki versus the corporate elite of Seattle. Gates may have ended up with the bigger house, but Torvalds reaped antiestablishment adulation.

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

Ele chamou Gordon Moore e fundaram uma empresa que se tornou conhecida como Integrated Electronics Corporation, que eles inteligentemente abreviaram para Intel.

up for adoption, and Mona Simpson, whom she raised. MONA SIMPSON. Biological full sister of Jobs; they discovered their relationship in 1986 and became

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.

También quería crear un panteón para él y su familia; para ello eligió un pequeño pero elegante convento, con su correspondiente iglesia, situado en el centro de Milán (Santa Maria delle Grazie), e hizo que un amigo de Leonardo, Donato Bramante, lo reconstruyera. Para la pared norte del nuevo comedor de los frailes, o refectorio, encargó a Leonardo que pintara una última cena, una de las escenas más populares del arte religioso.

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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Leonardo refuted this by arguing that painting is not only an art but also a science. In order to convey three-dimensional objects on a flat surface, the painter needs to understand perspective and optics. These are sciences that are grounded in mathematics. Therefore, painting is a creation of the intellect as well as the hands.

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

summer of 2004, I got a phone call from Steve Jobs.

There was a long silence. Al Gore was the first to speak, and he listed Jobs's accomplishments

is an unflinching biography of a manifestly great man. . . . Steve Jobs's life was a great story with a near mythic arc, and Isaacson captures it well . . . the book moves at a fast pace with a great eye for detail. . . . Isaacson is perceptive and original.

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

Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, two of the people who did in fact invent the Internet's protocols, spoke up on Gore's behalf.

ARPA should not force the research computers at each site to handle the routing of data, Clark argued. Instead ARPA should design and give each site a standardized minicomputer that would do the routing.

at the Ahwahnee Lodge in Yosemite National Park. Built in the 1920s, the Ahwahnee is a sprawling pile of stone, concrete, and timber designed in a style that mixed Art Deco, the Arts and Crafts movement

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

really don't apply to Apple's culture." Levitt later