Walter Isaacson Quote
Were superlatives. The product was incredible, he said, the best thing we could have imagined. He praised the beauty of even the parts unseen. Balancing on his fingertips the foot-square circuit board that would be nestled in the foot-cube box, he enthused, I hope you get a chance to look at this a little later. It’s the most beautiful printed circuit board I’ve ever seen in my life. He then showed how the computer could play speeches—he featured King’s I Have a Dream and Kennedy’s Ask Not—and send email with audio attachments. He leaned into the microphone on the computer
Walter Isaacson
Were superlatives. The product was incredible, he said, the best thing we could have imagined. He praised the beauty of even the parts unseen. Balancing on his fingertips the foot-square circuit board that would be nestled in the foot-cube box, he enthused, I hope you get a chance to look at this a little later. It’s the most beautiful printed circuit board I’ve ever seen in my life. He then showed how the computer could play speeches—he featured King’s I Have a Dream and Kennedy’s Ask Not—and send email with audio attachments. He leaned into the microphone on the computer
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About Walter Isaacson
Isaacson attended Harvard University and Pembroke College, Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He is the co-author with Evan Thomas of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986) and the author of Pro and Con (1983), Kissinger: A Biography (1992), Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003), Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), American Sketches (2009), Steve Jobs (2011), The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (2014), Leonardo da Vinci (2017), The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (2021) and Elon Musk (2023).
Isaacson is a professor at Tulane University and an advisory partner at Perella Weinberg Partners, a New York City-based financial services firm. He was vice chair of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, which oversaw the rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina, chaired the government board that runs Voice of America, and was a member of the Defense Innovation Board.