Walter Isaacson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.”

“And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.”

“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.”

“I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.”

“Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there.”

“I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.”

“I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.”

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

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

“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.”