Walter Isaacson Quotes

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 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

While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.3

While the men and various dignitaries celebrated, Jennings and Snyder made their way home alone through a very cold February night.

White isn’t just a neutral color. It is so pure and quiet. Bold and conspicuous and yet so inconspicuous as well.

Whoever accustoms himself to pass over in silence the faults of his neighbors shall meet with much better quarter from the world when he happens to fall into a mistake himself.14

Won’t Work. Apple’s former chief financial officer,

Woz spent a lot of time at home reading his father’s electronics journals, and he became enthralled by stories about new computers,

Woz,

Wozniak would be the gentle wizard coming up with a neat invention that he would have been happy just to give away, and Jobs would figure out how to make it user-friendly, put it together in a package...

Yet Jobs knew that he could manipulate Sculley by encouraging his belief that they were so alike. And the more he manipulated Sculley, the more contemptuous of him he became.

You always have to keep pushing to innovate.

You read everything—that’s part of the job, he said. You accumulate all this trivia, and you hope that someday maybe a millionth of it will be useful.

You shouldn’t whitewash it. He’s good at spin, but he also has a remarkable story, and I’d like to see that it’s all told truthfully.

You’re better off to go out and start your own company and fail than it is to stick at one company for thirty years.

A cette incroyable capacité à inventer des gadgets dont on n’a pas besoin et sans lesquels, brusquement, on ne peut plus vivre.

A machine that could process and store data at a cost of only $2 per digit. (Atanasoff’s machine could handle three thousand digits and cost about $6,000.)

A prim and proper lady who sat up front who had been, I was later told, President Eisenhower’s personal pilot when she was a male,

Afternoon,

Almost