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Quotes About Connection

He said that he would always harbor affection for Apple. "I'll always remember Apple like any man remembers the first woman he's fallen in love with.
~ Walter Isaacson
up for adoption, and Mona Simpson, whom she raised. MONA SIMPSON. Biological full sister of Jobs; they discovered their relationship in 1986 and became
~ Walter Isaacson
wanted instead to take a walk so that we could
~ Walter Isaacson
The body exists to serve the spirit
~ Walter Isaacson
each moment is not distinct but instead contains connections to a narrative.
~ Walter Isaacson
Case said. "We thought community trumped content.
~ Walter Isaacson
The reason Apple resonates with people is that there's a deep current of humanity in our innovation. I think great artists and great engineers are similar, in that they both have a desire to express themselves.
~ Walter Isaacson
until 1992, it was illegal to connect a commercial service like AOL to the Internet," Steve Case said.37
~ Walter Isaacson
Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and the World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.
~ Walter Isaacson
He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology, so he built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
~ Walter Isaacson
the key to innovation is connecting a curiosity about basic science to the practical work of devising tools that can be applied to our lives—moving discoveries from lab bench to bedside.
~ Walter Isaacson
If you reveal TMI, it can make people feel a little less alone.
~ Walter Isaacson
One day in the fall of 2010 he was wistfully going through a box of old snapshots with me, and paused over one that showed him visiting Lisa when she was young. "I probably didn't go over there enough," he said. Since he had not spoken to her all that year, I asked if he might want to reach out to her with a call or email. He looked at me blankly for a moment, then went back to riffling through other old photographs.
~ Walter Isaacson
That Tuesday afternoon, he kept staring into his children's eyes. At one point he looked at Patty and his children for a long time, then at Laurene, and finally gazed past them into the distance. "Oh wow," he said. "Oh wow. Oh wow." Those were his final words before he drifted into unconsciousness sometime around two that afternoon.
~ Walter Isaacson
Cuando Einstein se sentía bloqueado mientras trabajaba en la relatividad general, cogía su violín y tocaba música de Mozart hasta que volvía a conectar con lo que él denominaba la «armonía de las esferas».
~ Walter Isaacson
the beginning of 2002 Apple faced a challenge. The seamless connection between your iPod, iTunes software, and computer made it easy to manage the music you
~ Walter Isaacson
Once she calmed down, she told Jobs that he had a full sister, Mona Simpson, who was then an aspiring novelist
~ Walter Isaacson
taking a long walk was his preferred way to have a serious conversation. It turned
~ Walter Isaacson
the way that good ideas often blossom: a bumblebee brings half an idea from one realm, and pollinates another fertile realm filled with half-formed innovations
~ Walter Isaacson
I had been listening to a lot of Bach. All of a sudden the wheat field was playing Bach. It was the most wonderful feeling of my life up to that point. I felt like the conductor of this symphony with Bach coming through the wheat.
~ Walter Isaacson
computers to them, he asked if he could meet Baez. A few weeks later he and Baez
~ Walter Isaacson
Then I would explain, it was no use trying to learn math unless they could communicate it with other people."4
~ Walter Isaacson
NASA was able to send a man to the moon. Engineers in Silicon Valley were able to devise a way to put a programmable computer on a chip called a microprocessor. And ARPA created a network that could connect distant computers.
~ Walter Isaacson
It is a glorious feeling to discover the unity of a set of phenomena that seem at first to be completely separate
~ Walter Isaacson