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Walter Isaacson Quotes
American
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Writer
May 20, 1952
I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
Walter Isaacson
Body
Way
Want
He
Asked
Jobs
Opened
Operation
Violated
Get
Said
Then
Why
More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.
Walter Isaacson
Romantic
Effort
Serious
More
Businessperson
Generally
Jobs
Leave
Main
Namely
Narrative
Poetic
Rebel
Relevant
Side
Sides
Steve
Steve Jobs
Themes
Book
Made
Other
Out
Things
Two
Were
I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news.
Walter Isaacson
Good
You
Great
People
Among
Bringing
Competition
General
More And More
More People
Networks
News
Watching
I Think
Matter
More
Really
Think
I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings.
Walter Isaacson
Time
Think
Ups And Downs
I Think
Downs
Fixated
Ratings
Ups
Weekly
But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.
Walter Isaacson
People
New
Generation
More
Course
General
Happened
New Generation
News
September
September 11th
Get
Lot
Point
Since
Whole
We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.
Walter Isaacson
Good
Me
You
Trust
Basic
Carve
Compete
Helm
Journalism
Journalists
Networks
Niche
Universe
Just
Our
Out
Own
Some
Especially right after 9/11. Especially when the war in Afghanistan is going on. There was a real sense that you don't get that critical of a government that's leading us in war time.
Walter Isaacson
You
War
Time
Government
Afghanistan
Critical
Leading
Real Sense
After
Get
Going
Real
Right
Sense
Us
I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.
Walter Isaacson
Think
Enough
Building
Us
Believed
Biological
Chemical
Hussein
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Perhaps
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
Skepticism
Weapons
Because
Even
I Think
Kind
Most
Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there.
Walter Isaacson
Great
People
Will
Creativity
Company
Connected
Creation
Current
Engineering
Least
Product
Steve
Survive
Trained
Yeah
Any
His
I Think
Think
Which
While
Who
I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.
Walter Isaacson
For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
Walter Isaacson
God
People
Miracles
Some People
Evidence
Existence
Serve
Some
Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
Walter Isaacson
World
Spiritual
Important
Being
Enlightenment
Important Thing
Open
Reward
Seeker
Whose
Itself
Just
Somebody
Thing
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Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.
Walter Isaacson
Long
Memory
Never
Like
Apple
Bill
Bill Gates
Flash
Gates
Jobs
Product
Steve
Steve Jobs
Yes
After
Again
Any
Going
Got
He
Said
In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
Walter Isaacson
Age
Go
Internet
Talk
Baghdad
Expensive
Gonna
Ground
Everybody
Need
Somebody
Still
Stuff
Very
I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.
Walter Isaacson
People
Discipline
Think
Value
Charging
Consumers
Content
Forces
Journalists
Produce
Valuable
Valued
Actually
I Think
Must
Should
Things
And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
Walter Isaacson
You
Your
Doing
Open
Ears
Figure
Able
Going
Out
Should
I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.
Walter Isaacson
Look
Think
Rise
Important
Above
Bitter
Founding
Important Matters
Matters
Partisanship
Rise Above
Solved
Values
Back
Country
I Think
Less
Need
Now
Our
Right
I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
Walter Isaacson
Respect
Strong
Emotional
Steve
You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.
Walter Isaacson
Education
You
Great
Job
Economy
Innovative
Students
Sustainable
System
Teach
Unless
Right
Us
Without
I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
Walter Isaacson
Always
About
Abundance
Material
Biographies
Subjects
Had
We are in a situation with the huge stimulus package that's going to be spent all across this nation and a big financial crisis and banking crisis. And what we need is good, trained journalists who can play the role of watchdog.
Walter Isaacson
Good
Crisis
Situation
Nation
Across
Banking
Financial
Financial Crisis
Huge
Journalists
Package
Role
Spent
Stimulus
Stimulus Package
Trained
Big
Going
Need
Play
Who
I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.
Walter Isaacson
You
World
Think
Humility
Benjamin Franklin
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Franklin
Least
Needed
Policy
Strong
Strongly
Felt
I Think
Show
Some
Very
Were
I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
Walter Isaacson
People
Smart
Think
Creative
Engineering
Engineers
Financial
Innovative
Had
I Think
Problem
Who
He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
Walter Isaacson
Think
Understanding
He
Said
Abandoned
Chosen
Jobs
Key
Realized
Special
Steve
Steve Jobs
I Think
Just
Then
Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
Walter Isaacson
People
Smart
Think
Ability
Box
Dime
Dozen
Matters
Smart People
Different
Out
I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.
Walter Isaacson
Time
Humor
Home
Pain
Alto
Bedroom
Downstairs
Jobs
Last Time
Moved
Sharp
Stairs
Up And Down
Vibrant
Visited
Weak
Because
Down
Go
Had
He
His
Last
Mind
Some
Still
Too
Up
When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
Walter Isaacson
Kindness
Truth
You
Go
Balance
Err
Gut
Honest
Honest Truth
Multiple
Pick
Sensational
Side
Story
Version
Versions
Ways
Get
Most
Really
Things
Think
Three
Try
Your
What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
Walter Isaacson
Think
Box
Out
Use
Cliche
Einstein
Able
I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people on so you can beat them up or, you know, make fools out of them or something.
Walter Isaacson
You
People
Think
Looking
Beat
Bringing
Fair
Fools
Honest
Interview
I Think
Just
Know
Make
Out
Something
Them
Up
Want
I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.
Walter Isaacson
You
War
Think
Balance
Covering
Morally
Neutral
Terrorism
About
I Think
Important
Sense
Very
Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
Walter Isaacson
Great
Terrorism
Civilization
Planet
Horrible
Our Planet
Threat
Our
Thing
One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters.
Walter Isaacson
Great
Journalism
Air
Talk
Cheaper
Facing
Hire
Pressures
Pundits
Reporters
Shows
Talk Shows
Thumb
Actually
Lot
Now
Than
I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.
Walter Isaacson
You
Money
Think
Journalism
Corrupt
Credibility
Product
Starts
Succeeding
End
I Think
Up
You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.
Walter Isaacson
You
Culture
Know
Things
Computer
Confluence
Happened
Sort
I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.
Walter Isaacson
You
Think
Important
Creative
Seeker
Going
Very
When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
Walter Isaacson
You
Amazing
Human
Something
Ben
Biographies
Discover
Einstein
Franklin
About
Whether
Write
Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
Walter Isaacson
Business
Conflict
Like
See
Board
Create
Jobs
Sell
Wanting
Within
Being
Between
He
Him
Quite
Sort
Things
I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.
Walter Isaacson
Business
Think
Parents
Try
Create
Days
Exactly
Exactly What
Garage
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Startup
Valley
About
I Think
Our
Those
Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
Walter Isaacson
Change
Care
Who
Others
Avoid
Effective
Forcing
Generally
Leaders
Polite
Take Care
Take
I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
Walter Isaacson
You
Tough
Done
Things
Big Things
Wonder
I Wonder
Big
Get
How
Now
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