You and I love understanding American Revolution, but let's also understand the digital revolution, because that makes us more comfortable with our technology.
Walter IsaacsonWhat are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because theyโre dragging you down. Theyโre turning you into Microsoft. Theyโre causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.
Walter IsaacsonI think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings.
Walter IsaacsonA popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every literature major should take a watered-down physics course or that a corporate lawyer should stay abreast of quantum mechanics. Rather, it means that an appreciation for the methods of science is a useful asset for a responsible citizenry. What science teaches us, very significantly, is the correlation between factual evidence and general theories, something well illustrated in Einstein's life.
Walter Isaacson