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Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson (born May 20, 1952) is an American writer and journalist. He is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C., and University Professor of History at Tulane University. He has been the chairman and CEO of Cable News Network (CNN) and Managing Editor of Time. He has written biographies of Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and Henry Kissinger.

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I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

Journalism, Starts, Succeed, Succeeding, Thinking, Undermines

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.

Fixated, Hours, Rating, Thinking, Ups, Weekly

Leonardo da Vinci was lucky to be born the same year that Johannes Gutenberg opened his printing shop. As a young person, he could get information about whatever struck his curiosity. The Internet is to our age what Gutenberg's press was to his, so he would have loved being alive today.

Age, Curiosity, Johannes, Live For Today, Struck, Young

I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company. The whole notion of how you build a company is fascinating. " Steve Jobs

Company, Innovation, Jobs, Way, Whole

Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book. " (Steven Levy)

Blind, Book, Ipods, Sitting, Total

I think Leonardo da Vinci teaches us the value of both being focused on things that fascinate us but also, at times, being distracted and deciding to pursue some shiny new idea that you happen to stumble upon. Balancing intense focus with being interested in a whole lot of different things is something that we have to do in the Internet age.

Age, Fascinate, Focus, Pursue, Shiny, Thinking

Jobs did not know that Sculley had told Eisenstat he wanted to quit, but by then it didn't matter. Overnight, he had changed his mind and decided to stay. Despite the blowup the day before, he was still eager for Jobs to like him. So he agreed to meet the next afternoon.

Afternoon, Decided, Eisenstat, Jobs, Mind, Overnight

Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. “There is no one better at turning off the noise that is going on around him,” Cook said. “That allows him to focus on a few things and say no to many things. Few people are really good at that.

Apples, Cook, Good, Jobs, Three, Two

One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such men make this cosmos and its construction the pivot of their emotional life, in order to find the peace and security which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

Art, Emotional, Memorable, Narrow, Personal, Pivot

Innovation requires articulation.

Innovation, Articulation, Requires

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.

Balance, Covering, Morally, Neutral, Thinking, War

What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft. They’re causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.

Focus, Microsoft, Adequate, Products, Turning

If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away. The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to say, “Bye. I have to go. I’m going crazy and I’m getting out of here. ” And they go and hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently. (Steve Jobs)

Artist, Crazy, Jobs, Life, Tries

Vision w
o execution is just hallucination. You need the right combination of visionary + team that can execute

Execution, Hallucination, Needs, Team, Vision

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.

Different, Dumb, Four, Gates, Thinking

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

Able, Box, Einstein, Thinking, Use

Not playing by the rules, not seeing things conventionally, that's the heart of who he [ Steve Jobs] is, and he does it in small ways of everyday rebellion just almost to assert who he is, like not putting a license plate on his car.

Car, Heart, Jobs, Plate, Seeing, Small

For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

Evidence, Evidence Of God, Miracle, People, Serve

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

Done, Tough, Wonder, Big

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

Enlightenment, Important, Seeker, Spiritual, Thing

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