Walter Isaacson

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

— Walter Isaacson

#big things #done #get #how #i

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

— Walter Isaacson

#abundance #always #biographies #had #i

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

#body #get #i #jobs #opened

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

#baghdad #colonels #everybody #expensive #go

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

#air #bureaus #cheaper #facing #great

I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#engineering #engineers #financial #had #i

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

#again #any #apple #bill #bill gates

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

— Walter Isaacson

#great #horrible #our #our planet #planet

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

— Walter Isaacson

#box #cliche #einstein #out #think

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

— Walter Isaacson

#amazing #ben #biographies #discover #einstein