Alan Isaacson quote: "More people show up for the (general election) than do the primary. Nobody can give a good enough reason (to have it at the primary) other than you're trying to get it passed."

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

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

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

But you should be prepared for it.
BEN ISAACSON

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 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

Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
ALAN WATTS

I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagre...
ALAN COLMES

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLIS

Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest po...
ALAN STERN

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT

I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
ALAN BENNETT

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me ch...
ALAN BENNETT

I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
ALAN BENNETT

I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu...
ALAN BENNETT

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fall...
ALAN BENNETT

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETT

I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that...
ALAN BENNETT

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
ALAN BENNETT

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's...
ALAN BENNETT

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETT

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The...
ALAN BENNETT

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETT

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETT

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception...
ALAN BENNETT

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT

Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; o...
ALAN BENNETT

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
ALAN BENNETT

If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
ALAN KING

I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.
ALAN TURING

I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don'...
ALAN TURING

I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature co...
ALAN TURING

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two ...
ALAN TURING

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brai...
ALAN TURING

I want to enjoy not getting recognised while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can...
ALAN WALKER

Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
ALAN BULLOCK

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
ALAN WATTS

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLIS

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAY

I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.
ALAN AUTRY

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, il...
ALAN MOORE

I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I kn...
ALAN MOORE

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
ALAN WATTS

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATON

You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven...
ALAN GREENSPAN

I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' A...
ALAN BALL

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
ALAN PARKER

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it pers...
ALAN BALL

Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go u...
ALAN GREENSPAN

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, ...
ALAN WATTS

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world insid...
ALAN MOORE

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of ea...
ALAN KAY

If we don't re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges - economic, social and political...
ALAN SIEGEL

On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12....
ALAN RICKMAN

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impos...
ALAN WATTS

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
ALAN WATTS

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they...
ALAN WATTS

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is a...
ALAN WATTS

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about th...
ALAN WATTS

I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTS

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
ALAN WATTS

Saints need sinners.
ALAN WATTS

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
ALAN WATTS

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
ALAN WATTS

More people show up for the (general election) than do the primary. Nobody can give a good enough reason (to have it at the primary) other than you're trying to get it passed.

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More people show up for the (general election) than do the primary. Nobody can give a good enough reason (to have it at the primary) other than you're trying to get it passed.

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