Walter Isaacson Quotes

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 t...

Spacewar highlighted three aspects of the hacker culture that became themes of the digital age. First, it was created collaboratively. We were able to build it together, working as a team, which is ho...

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...

I came to work with Steve for a week, Lin recalled.

The Innovator’s Dilemma.)

Build creative digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness, imagination, and sustained innovation. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century wa...

I decided then to write this book. Jobs surprised me by readily acknowledging that he would have no control over it or even the right to see it in advance. It’s your book, he said. I won’t even read i...

Of creating new products. But his more important

Had been his most productive in terms of creating new products. But his

Mac in a book.

I had known him since 1984, when he came to Manhattan to have lunch with Time’s editors and extol his new Macintosh. He was petulant even then, attacking a Time correspondent for having wounded him wi...

I hate it when people call themselves entrepreneurs when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on. They’re unwilling to do the w...

Know that taking a long walk was his preferred way to have a serious conversation. It turned out that he wanted me to write a biography of him. I had recently published one on Benjamin Franklin and wa...

Shortly before she died in 2011, Jean Jennings Bartik reflected proudly on the fact that all the programmers who created the first general-purpose computer were women: Despite our coming of age in an...

We talked a lot about focus. And choosing people. How to know who to trust, and how to build a team of lieutenants he can count on. I described the blocking and tackling he would have to do to keep th...

I 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 'computer', plus it wou...

I was struck by how the truest creativity of the digital age came from those who were able to connect the arts and sciences.

Poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist.

The main thing in our design is that we have to make things intuitively obvious.

If 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 throw them away.