Walter Isaacson Quotes

The company began attracting influential new investors.

The general laws of nature are to be expressed by equations that hold true for all systems of coordinates, that is they are covariant with respect to any substitutions whatever.85 Einstein

The goal was never to beat the competition, or to make a lot of money. It was to do the greatest thing possible, or even a little greater.

The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it,

The lesson Jobs learned from his Buddhist days was that material possessions often cluttered life rather than enriched it.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions, he wrote a Brooklyn minister. Our inner balance and even our existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can giv...

The most successful endeavors in the digital age were those run by leaders who fostered collaboration while also providing a clear vision. Too often these are seen as conflicting traits: a leader is e...

The tale of their teamwork is important because we don’t often focus on how central that skill is to innovation. There are thousands of books celebrating people we biographers portray, or mythologize,...

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.

There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution,

They developed not merely modest product advances based on focus groups, but whole new devices and services that consumers did not yet know they needed.

Think Different campaign, featuring iconic photos of some of the same people we were considering, and he found the endeavor of assessing historic influence fascinating. After

This concept of the cosmos that Einstein derived from his general theory of relativity was elegant and magical. But there seemed to be one hitch, a flaw that needed to be fixed or fudged. His theory i...

This interplay of military and academic motives became ingrained in the Internet. The design of both the ARPANET and the Internet favored military values, such as survivability, flexibility, and high...

This is also, I hope, a book about innovation. At a time when the United States is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build creative digital...

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Timothy Leary declared that personal computers had become the new LSD and years later revised his famous mantra to proclaim, Turn on, boot up, jack in.

To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone. His

To succeed at any ambitious project, you had to assess all of the intricate ramifications of an action, weigh probabilities, share information, organize people, and more.

Tribble recalled that he adopted the phrase from the Menagerie episodes of Star Trek, in which the aliens create their own new world through sheer mental force. He meant the phrase to be a compliment...