Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book." (Steven Levy)
Walter IsaacsonSometimes, to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet, a practice that was not as soothing for his collegues.
Walter IsaacsonTerrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
Walter IsaacsonI have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesmen, because they’re the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and designers. So the salespeople end up running the company.
Walter Isaacson