Walter Isaacson Quotes

I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
Walter Isaacson

Done, Tough, Big

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
Walter Isaacson

Abundance, Material, Subjects

I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
Walter Isaacson

Why, Said, Body

In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
Walter Isaacson

Age, Talk, Everybody

Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
Walter Isaacson

Business, Him, Between

More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.
Walter Isaacson

Romantic, Book, Made

One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters.
Walter Isaacson

Great, Talk, Actually

Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.
Walter Isaacson

Long, After, Said

Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
Walter Isaacson

Great, Terrorism, Planet

We are in a situation with the huge stimulus package that's going to be spent all across this nation and a big financial crisis and banking crisis. And what we need is good, trained journalists who can play the role of watchdog.
Walter Isaacson

Good, Crisis, Play

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.
Walter Isaacson

Trust, Good, Universe

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
Walter Isaacson

Able, Box, Cliche

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
Walter Isaacson

Amazing, Human, Write

You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.
Walter Isaacson

Education, Great, Job

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.
Walter Isaacson

Culture, Happened, Computer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: May 20, 1952

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