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I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.
- Walter Isaacson
#Home
#Humor
#Mind
#Pain
#Time
I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.
- Walter Isaacson
#Country
#Important
#Look
#Rise
#Values
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
#Effort
#Leave
#Rebel
#Romantic
#Serious
He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
- Walter Isaacson
#Abandoned
#Key
#Special
#Understanding
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
#Know
#Sort
#Things
I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news.
- Walter Isaacson
#Competition
#Good
#Great
#News
#People
Especially right after 9/11. Especially when the war in Afghanistan is going on. There was a real sense that you don't get that critical of a government that's leading us in war time.
- Walter Isaacson
#Afghanistan
#Government
#Real
#Time
#War
When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
- Walter Isaacson
#Balance
#Kindness
#Three
#Truth
#Try
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
#Financial
#People
#Smart
I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings.
- Walter Isaacson
#I Think
#Think
#Time
#Ups And Downs
#Ups
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
#Right
#Us
Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
- Walter Isaacson
#Avoid
#Care
#Change
#Others
#Take Care
I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.
- Walter Isaacson
#Dumb
#Information
#Power
#Process
#Right
I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.
- Walter Isaacson
#Humility
#Policy
#Show
#Strong
#World
Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
- Walter Isaacson
#Important
#Reward
#Spiritual
#World
Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
- Walter Isaacson
#Civilization
#Great
#Planet
#Terrorism
Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
- Walter Isaacson
#Ability
#People
#Smart People
#Smart
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
#Good
#Journalism
#Me
#Trust
#Universe
I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.
- Walter Isaacson
#Business
#Create
#Parents
#Try
#Valley
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