Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn’t quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak’s board. Wanting to create a business. Walter Isaacson Read Quote
Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet. Walter Isaacson Read Quote
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. Walter Isaacson Read Quote
I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong. Walter Isaacson Read Quote
I think that’s exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let’s do a startup in our parents’ garage and try to create a business. Walter Isaacson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
In the age of the internet when everybody’s a pundit, we’re still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that’s very expensive. Walter Isaacson Read Quote
I’ve asked Jobs why he didn’t get an operation then and he said, ‘I didn’t want my body to be opened. I didn’t want to be violated in that way.’ Walter Isaacson Read Quote
