Walter Isaacson Quotes

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

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

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. - Walter Isaacson

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

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

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

We'd love to have conversations if Ted Koppel wanted to, and could. - Walter Isaacson

We were looking for influence and why we have to suffer through 'Godzilla.' - Walter Isaacson

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

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