Quotes About Isaacson

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

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

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.

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

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

Isaacson is to be commended for explaining the genius of Jobs in fascinating fashion, launching a discussion that could reach infinity and beyond." —The Christian Science Monitor "Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs comes as a breath of fresh air . . . a reliable and captivating guide to a man who reshaped the computing industry

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.

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

und die lieben Züricher können mich auch…

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.