Steve has a reality distortion field.โ When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. โIn his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when heโs not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules.
Walter IsaacsonIt's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others.
Walter IsaacsonIt seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan ...[Showing the misery of Afghanistan ran the risk of] promoting enemy propaganda...we must talk about how the Taliban are using civilian shields and how the Taliban have harboured the terrorists responsible for killing close up to 5,000 innocent people.
Walter IsaacsonThe Mona Lisa, to me, is the greatest emotional painting ever done. The way the smile flickers makes it a work of both art and science, because Leonardo understood optics, and the muscles of the lips, and how light strikes the eye - all of it goes into making the Mona Lisa's smile so mysterious and elusive.
Walter Isaacson