White isn’t just a neutral color. It is so pure and quiet. Bold and conspicuous and yet so inconspicuous as well.
While the men and various dignitaries celebrated, Jennings and Snyder made their way home alone through a very cold February night.
While she slept, her subconscious untangled the knot that her conscious mind had been unable to.
While painting The Last Supper, Leonardo would sometimes stare at the work for an hour, finally make one small stroke, and then leave. He told Duke Ludovico that creativity requires time for ideas to...
When you help build something, you own it, you’re vested in it. That’s far more rewarding than having it handed down to you.111
When you have feelings, he said, like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.
When we ascribe credit for an invention, determining who should be most noted by history, one criterion is looking at whose contributions turned out to have the most influence.
When the design was finally locked in, Jobs called the Macintosh team together for a ceremony. Real artists sign their work, he said. So he got out a sheet of drafting paper and a Sharpie pen and had...
When shown his office, he was asked what equipment he might need. A desk or table, a chair, paper and pencils, he replied. Oh yes, and a large wastebasket, so I can throw away all my mistakes.
When one reporter asked him immediately afterward why the machine was going to be so late, Jobs replied, It’s not late. It’s five years ahead of its time. As
When one has so many different people with different opinions to deal with in a new affair,
When nature gave us tears, she gave us leave to weep.34
When a person can take pleasure in marching in step to a piece of music it is enough to make me despise him. He has been given his big brain only by mistake.
When Marian Anderson, the black contralto, came to Princeton for a concert in 1937, the Nassau Inn refused her a room. So Einstein invited her to stay at his house on Mercer Street, in what was a deep...
When I realized that I was smarter than my parents, I felt tremendous shame for having thought that.
When Einstein was stymied while working out General Relativity, he would pull out his violin and play Mozart until he could reconnect to what he called the harmony of the spheres.
Western rational thought is not an innate human characteristic; it is learned and is the great achievement of Western civilization. In the villages of India, they never learned it. They learned someth...
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Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute,
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