Walter IsaacsonThe people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he said. The hierarchical … ▶374HumanityLifeThought
Walter IsaacsonPicasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. ✨ Walter Isaacson (2011). Walter Isaacson Gre… ▶331ReadingThought
Walter IsaacsonSimply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book. (Steven Levy) ✨ Walter Isaacson … ▶332Reading
Walter IsaacsonIf you act like you can do something, then it will work. ✨ Walter Isaacson (2011). Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein… ▶343Reading
Walter IsaacsonBut 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. ✨ Extende… ▶332Humanity
Walter Isaacsonif you can't keep him interested, that's your fault.344Sadness
Walter IsaacsonWhat are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft. They’re causing you to turn out produc… ▶322Love
Walter IsaacsonA theme of digital success is keeping it simple.344Sadness
Walter IsaacsonSometimes, to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet, a practice that was not as soothing for his collegues. ✨ Walter Isaacson (2011). Steve Jobs, p.82, Simon … ▶334Time
Walter IsaacsonThe reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand. ✨ Walt… ▶301Truth
Walter IsaacsonI 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 pa… ▶378HumorSadnessThought
Walter IsaacsonPeople who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint. ✨ Walter Isaacson (2011). Steve Jobs, p.337, Simon and Schuster292HumanityPolitics
Walter IsaacsonThe older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don’t really love music or art the way we do. We won because we pe… ▶3710HumanityLove
Walter IsaacsonAsked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell. ✨ Walt… ▶336HumorTruth
Walter IsaacsonOne way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are. ✨ Walter Isaacson (2011). Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Frankli… ▶348Reading
Walter IsaacsonThroughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic of nature's phenomena-magnetic fields, gravi… ▶305HumanityLifeThought
Walter IsaacsonSteve has a reality distortion field.” When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. “In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. I… ▶305ReadingTruth
Walter IsaacsonMore 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, … ▶283Reading
Walter IsaacsonIf you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to h… ▶251ThoughtTime
Walter IsaacsonOn the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, Did Alexander Graham Bell do… ▶284Hope
Walter IsaacsonI am a fruitarian and I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight - Steve Jobs ✨ Walter Isaacson (2011). Steve Jobs, p.68, Simon and Schuster273Love
Walter IsaacsonI was on one of my fruitarian diets Steve Jobs recalled I had just comeback from the apple farm. It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge of the word 'c… ▶306DeathReading
Walter IsaacsonIf you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and thr… ▶339LifeReflectionTime
Walter IsaacsonI 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. ✨ Isaacso… ▶3410ReadingThought
Walter IsaacsonAnd if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.295Thought
Walter IsaacsonI 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. 273SadnessThought
Walter IsaacsonIn 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 ex… ▶231Truth
Walter Isaacson...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism. ✨ Walter Isaacson (2011). Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Fra… ▶287LoveReading
Walter IsaacsonJobs 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 boar… ▶276Time
Walter IsaacsonWhen 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 … ▶244ThoughtTruth
