Walter Isaacson Quotes

Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe itself,

Jobs took McCollum’s class for only one year, rather than the three that it was offered. For one of his projects, he made a device with a photocell that would switch on a circuit when exposed to light...

Leonardo at twenty-nine was more easily distracted by the future than he was focused on the present. He was a genius undisciplined by diligence.

In ancient Rome, when a victorious general paraded through the streets, legend has it that he was sometimes trailed by a servant whose job it was to repeat to him, Memento Mori: Remember you will die...

When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting him.

I keep thinking about all the time away from my family this will cause, and the time away from the other family at Pixar, Jobs said. But the only reason I want to do it is that the world will be a bet...

If there is no love, what then?2

I’ve always been, he wrote, full of whims and mischief, and as moody as ever!36

This is a book about the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal compu...

Of course, it would have been even more exciting if Einstein had trusted his original equations and simply announced that his general theory of relativity predicted that the universe is expanding. If...

Jobs spent part of every day for six months helping to refine the display. It was the most complex fun I’ve ever had, he recalled. It was like being the one evolving the variations on ‘Sgt. Pepper.’ ...

Leonardo’s interest in machinery was linked to his fascination with motion.

Needed to be uncomplicated enough that a stoned freshman

They were still walking and talking when the stores opened at 10, and they went into Eddie Bauer. It had an entrance off the mall and another off the parking lot. Jobs decided that Apple stores should...

As scientists would discover after Einstein’s death, Schwarzschild’s odd theory was right. Stars could collapse and create such a phenomenon, and in fact they often did. In the 1960s, physicists such...

Good authors copy, great artists steal-Picassco

My father told me, ‘You always want to be in the middle,’  he said. I didn’t want to be up with the high-level people like Steve. My dad was an engineer, and that’s what I wanted to be. I was way too...

Things, by removing the superfluous. The G4 Cube was almost ostentatious

Glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. At that point his voice became slightly more emphatic, excited, as if he were sitting right in front of the crowd, his

There was a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur each other on. If