It's a great way to drive traffic.
BEN ISAACSON I haven't seen one single case of a company posting a [privacy] policy and abusing it. We've done wh...
BEN ISAACSON Most companies have Web pages now, even if it's just a one-page [online] brochure. Now, the question...
BEN ISAACSON I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
WALTER ISAACSON And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you sho...
WALTER ISAACSON I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline...
WALTER ISAACSON Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was ...
WALTER ISAACSON I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Sadda...
WALTER ISAACSON We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, ...
WALTER ISAACSON But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in ne...
WALTER ISAACSON I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of...
WALTER ISAACSON I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my b...
WALTER ISAACSON I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanshi...
WALTER ISAACSON More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative...
WALTER ISAACSON I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.
WALTER ISAACSON You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do t...
WALTER ISAACSON I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
WALTER ISAACSON We are in a situation with the huge stimulus package that's going to be spent all across this na...
WALTER ISAACSON I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup i...
WALTER ISAACSON What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
WALTER ISAACSON I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the...
WALTER ISAACSON I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engine...
WALTER ISAACSON When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most...
WALTER ISAACSON Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important th...
WALTER ISAACSON Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
WALTER ISAACSON Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of t...
WALTER ISAACSON If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only ...
WALTER ISAACSON More people show up for the (general election) than do the primary. Nobody can give a good enough re...
ALAN ISAACSON It's a definite economic boost for the state, especially in the post-Christmas season. It's good exp...
ALAN ISAACSON I feel like I am getting hit from both sides. I oppose bringing this up just after the impact fees.
ALAN ISAACSON We want to offer developers a carrot rather than beat them with a stick.
ALAN ISAACSON We're not against vacationers, but those of us who live here would like to have housing to continue ...
ALAN ISAACSON The economic activity is not isolated to just Park City. It looks like they're spreading around more...
ALAN ISAACSON Este es un homenaje a los locos. A los inadaptados. A los rebeldes. A los alborotadores. A las ficha...
WALTER ISAACSON One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.
WALTER ISAACSON Algunas personas proponen: «Dales a los clientes lo que quieren». Pero esa no es mi postura. Nuest...
WALTER ISAACSON Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. “There is no one better ...
WALTER ISAACSON Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Out job is to figu...
WALTER ISAACSON Walter Issacson biographer of Steve Jobs:

I remember sitting in his backyard in his garde...
WALTER ISAACSON I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroo...
WALTER ISAACSON When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something ...
WALTER ISAACSON I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed t...
WALTER ISAACSON faithful to its core mission of being the most authoritative and credible source of information in t...
WALTER ISAACSON I think we're trying as much as possible to be part of the heart and soul of Aspen,
WALTER ISAACSON Spielberg made movies the way they are today. Our list is aimed at naming the people who influenced ...
WALTER ISAACSON We'd love to have conversations if Ted Koppel wanted to, and could,
WALTER ISAACSON It's like when FEMA wasn't really that creative, and the water was rising and people were stranded, ...
WALTER ISAACSON Today, Tom Reilly threw the entire gay community in front of the bus. We are stunned and horrified b...
ARLINE ISAACSON We are fully aware that the votes of somebody like Phil Travis could be affected by Reilly's decisio...
ARLINE ISAACSON We feel like Reilly put the entire gay community in front of a bus today.
ARLINE ISAACSON I've heard the rumor on and off for a month or two. Most rumors like this have some basis for truth,...
WALTER ISAACSON There is a whole group of young people now with attitude and sharpness that comes from a Bart Simpso...
WALTER ISAACSON There would be times when we'd rack our brains on a user interface problem, and think we'd considere...
WALTER ISAACSON Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are...
WALTER ISAACSON Look out your window, and what do you see? Le Corbusier, not Wright.
WALTER ISAACSON I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does ...
WALTER ISAACSON Bob Iger, Disney's chief operating officer, had to step in and do damage control. He was as sensible...
WALTER ISAACSON Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser at...
WALTER ISAACSON One of Job's great strengths was knowing how to focus. " Deciding what not to do is as important as ...
WALTER ISAACSON Mrs. Graham was an important and remarkable person in our profession and all of us lucky enough to k...
WALTER ISAACSON With the participation of a wide range of policymakers -- from Margaret Thatcher to Jimmy Carter to ...
WALTER ISAACSON Jobs had begun to drop acid by then, and he turned Brennan on to it as well, in a wheat field just o...
WALTER ISAACSON I think the McCain and Lieberman talk about the need for civility in public discourse is right at th...
WALTER ISAACSON Steve's head dropped and stared at his feet. After a weighty, uncomfortable pause, he issued a chall...
WALTER ISAACSON There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.
WALTER ISAACSON I'll be in Philadelphia. They are throwing a huge party for him. Hundreds and hundreds of people are...
WALTER ISAACSON Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless ...
WALTER ISAACSON It was elitism, sort of a condescending elitism that looked down on Franklin for having basic middle...
WALTER ISAACSON It was important, his father said, to craft the backs of cabinets and fences properly, even though t...
WALTER ISAACSON They kept going hard after the tailback to stop that all night. We went with the reverse to catch th...
DICK ISAACSON We have some juniors on this team and I challenged them this week. I wanted them to use this game to...
DICK ISAACSON I got selfish tonight. This is my last Manual game so I asked them to win it for me.
DICK ISAACSON We're hopeful. We have our fingers crossed.
DICK ISAACSON He's got the physical talent.
DICK ISAACSON One night in practice we just threw him back there to see what would happen - kind of a garbage-can ...
DICK ISAACSON The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the W...
WALTER ISAACSON I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental ...
WALTER ISAACSON Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs ...
WALTER ISAACSON Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
WALTER ISAACSON Was [Steve Jobs] smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. His imaginative leaps were ...
WALTER ISAACSON I don’t have any skeletons in my closet that can’t be allowed out.
WALTER ISAACSON I never worried about money. I grew up in a middle-class family, so I never thought I would starve. ...
WALTER ISAACSON Steve Jobs thus became the greatest business executive of our era, the one most certain to be rememb...
WALTER ISAACSON As part of the deal, Dylan appeared in a television ad for the iPod, featuring his new album, Modern...
WALTER ISAACSON Стив считал: в гениальном компьютере аппаратное и прог...
WALTER ISAACSON «Это самый дорогой телефон в мире, — говорил Стив Балл�...
WALTER ISAACSON I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company.
WALTER ISAACSON As Osborne famously declared, "Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous." Jobs found that app...
WALTER ISAACSON Google, you fucking ripped off the iPhone, wholesale ripped us off. Grand theft. I will spend my las...
WALTER ISAACSON Form follows emotion
WALTER ISAACSON He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel sm...
WALTER ISAACSON Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to yo...
WALTER ISAACSON Steve has a reality distortion field.” When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. “In hi...
WALTER ISAACSON The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitab...
WALTER ISAACSON There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth
WALTER ISAACSON I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and ...
WALTER ISAACSON So that’s our approach. Very simple, and we’re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality....
WALTER ISAACSON Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.
WALTER ISAACSON Steve Jobs had a tendency to see things in a binary way: "A person was either a hero or a bozo, a pr...
WALTER ISAACSON The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people ...
WALTER ISAACSON if you can't keep him interested, that's your fault.
WALTER ISAACSON Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have ...
WALTER ISAACSON What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you...
WALTER ISAACSON You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something...
WALTER ISAACSON On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market...
WALTER ISAACSON Steve Jobs: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
WALTER ISAACSON People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.
WALTER ISAACSON If you act like you can do something, then it will work.
WALTER ISAACSON Years later, on a Steve Jobs discussion board on the website Gawker, the following tale appeared fro...
WALTER ISAACSON Jobs had always been an extremely opinionated eater, with a tendency to instantly judge any food as ...
WALTER ISAACSON Sometimes, to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet, a practice that was not as sooth...
WALTER ISAACSON In two days he saw Rupert Murdoch, his son James, and the management of their Wall Street Journal; A...
WALTER ISAACSON In a bravura demonstration of stonewalling, righteousness, and hurt sincerity, Steve Jobs successful...
WALTER ISAACSON Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.
WALTER ISAACSON I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exist...
WALTER ISAACSON If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. Y...
WALTER ISAACSON When he was turning thirty, Jobs had used a metaphor about record albums. He was musing about why fo...
WALTER ISAACSON He also came to like the idea of having a uniform for himself, because of both its daily convenience...
WALTER ISAACSON Jobs and Clow agreed that Apple was one of the great brands of the world, probably in the top five b...
WALTER ISAACSON I believe that love is a better teacher than a sense of duty,” he said, “at least for me.
WALTER ISAACSON If he catches that ball, we probably win 3-0. Paul knows he should have caught that ball. I just ask...
JAMI ISAACSON We have 13 seniors and a good group of freshmen. We dealt with injuries last year, but I think we'll...
JAMI ISAACSON Offensively, we can go a lot of ways. But it is the pitching I'm really excited about.
JAMI ISAACSON We are going to play him right away. With some freshman, you throw them in and pull them out. Someti...
JAMI ISAACSON I think it's a great day for PTI. I think this will allow the citizens of the Triad to fly out of PT...
HENRY ISAACSON Next to his family and his friends, the airport was his true love. We owe the new terminal to Stanle...
HENRY ISAACSON I'm going to make them keep their word. We're going out to see them middle of next week and that's g...
HENRY ISAACSON I'm hoping that we've had enough conversation with the other airlines that they're going to keep the...
HENRY ISAACSON After the applause, he used the quotations book to make a more subtle point, about his reality disto...
WALTER ISAACSON reality has an odd habit of catching up with satire.
WALTER ISAACSON They deny committing the crime. The defense is they didn't do what's alleged by Mr. Perez.
JOEL ISAACSON Did you tell the whole and entire truth in your report?
JOEL ISAACSON Wouldn't you feel better if he were hear to tell you?
JOEL ISAACSON Retirement is an area where there is a lot of depression. There's only so may 'early-bird specials' ...
JOEL ISAACSON They think you don't have to have exposure to certain areas -- you just have to buy the big names,
JOEL ISAACSON And that will raise your cholesterol,
JOEL ISAACSON Once you object to alcohol and gambling, then you can raise questions about the violence in Rap musi...
JOEL ISAACSON I want it to be as beautiful as possible, even if it's inside the box. A great carpenter isn't going...
WALTER ISAACSON Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names...
BEN CARSON If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll ge...
BEN VEREEN You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going ...
BEN CARSON I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at tha...
BEN MENDELSOHN I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved ...
BEN MENDELSOHN The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put f...
BEN MENDELSOHN My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormo...
BEN MENDELSOHN I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I thin...
BEN MENDELSOHN Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.
BEN MENDELSOHN Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, jus...
BEN MENDELSOHN I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very goo...
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind...
BEN MENDELSOHN The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of...
BEN MENDELSOHN I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like ...
BEN MENDELSOHN I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for abou...
BEN MENDELSOHN The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their f...
BEN MENDELSOHN Before 'Animal Kingdom,' I wasn't particularly thought of in villainous roles.
BEN MENDELSOHN I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see...
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.
BEN MENDELSOHN The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, live...
BEN MENDELSOHN Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.
BEN MENDELSOHN I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a sl...
BEN MENDELSOHN You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it ind...
BEN MENDELSOHN You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke...
BEN MENDELSOHN As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
BEN MENDELSOHN It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
BEN MENDELSOHN I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you...
BEN MENDELSOHN We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st...
BEN OKRI It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
BEN SHAPIRO Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ...
BEN BERNANKE Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.
BEN ZOBRIST People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they as...
BEN MEZRICH Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare...
BEN GOLDACRE Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the ...
BEN HUH One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.
BEN SILBERMANN The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ...
BEN OKRI No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee...
BEN CARSON Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. An...
BEN CARSON I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b...
BEN SCHNETZER Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.
BEN SHAPIRO The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where the...
BEN OKRI I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like preci...
BEN WHISHAW Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin...
BEN PARR Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid...
BEN BERNANKE Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies see...
BEN HINSON I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
BEN KATCHOR I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics...
BEN ELLIOT Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His...
BEN SHAPIRO President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and ...
BEN SHAPIRO Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another r...
BEN SHAPIRO Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, s...
BEN SHAPIRO The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for t...
BEN SHAPIRO Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do ...
BEN SHAPIRO President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed presi...
BEN SHAPIRO There are times that everyone hates his or her job. Were they freed from the economic consequences o...
BEN SHAPIRO I love bummer songs.
BEN GIBBARD There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get a...
BEN CARSON I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in ...
BEN AFFLECK Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would ha...
BEN SHAHN The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern ...
BEN SHAPIRO