Walter Isaacson Quotes

I want to make this a revolution, not an effort to squeeze out profits.

I was voluntarily poor when I was in college and India, and I lived a pretty simple life when I was working. So I went from fairly poor, which was wonderful because I didn't have to worry about money,...

I was way too shy ever to be a business leader like Steve.

If Apple is going to succeed, he told me, we’re going to win on innovation. And you can’t win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate to customers. When

If a typewriter is antiquated, what does that make me? she asked. There was an awkward pause. As Baez later told me, As soon as I said it, I realized the answer was so obvious. The question just hung...

If we want to resist the powers that threaten to suppress intellectual and individual freedom, we must be clear what is at stake, he said. Without such freedom there would have been no Shakespeare, no...

If you don’t love something, you’re not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much. Mr.

If you reveal TMI, it can make people feel a little less alone.

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend. This

In 2011 a milestone was reached: Apple and Google spent more on lawsuits and payments involving patents than they did on research and development of new products.

In a colorful part of the paper, he presented a fictional scenario in which he posed questions to the machine. He imagined the machine’s activity: Over the week-end it retrieved over 10,000 documents,...

In collecting such a medley of ideas, Leonardo was following a practice that had become popular in Renaissance Italy of keeping a commonplace and sketch book, known as a zibaldone. But in their conten...

In his Apple office, 1982: Asked if he wanted to do market research, he said, No, because customers don’t know what they want until we’ve shown them.

In his competition with Bradford, Franklin had one big disadvantage. Bradford was the postmaster of Philadelphia, and he used that position to deny Franklin the right, at least officially, to send his...

In notes for his treatise on painting, Leonardo recommended to young artists this practice of walking around town, finding people to use as models, and recording the most interesting ones in a portabl...

In the seventy years since von Neumann effectively placed his Draft Report on the EDVAC into the public domain, the trend for computers has been, with a few notable exceptions, toward a more proprieta...

Indeed, most of their letters mixed romantic effusions with scientific enthusiasms, often with an emphasis on the latter.

Initiates were required to stand, lay their hand on their breast, and answer properly four questions: Do you have disrespect for any current member? Do you love mankind in general regardless of religi...

Innovation is driven by people who have both good theories and the opportunity to be part of a group that can implement them. The

Innovation requires having at least three things: a great idea, the engineering talent to execute it, and the business savvy (plus deal-making moxie) to turn it into a successful product.