Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson FRSA is an American writer and journalist. He is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C. He has been the chairman and CEO of Cable News Networkand the Managing Editor of Time. He has written biographies of Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and Henry Kissinger...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth20 May 1952
CityNew Orleans, LA
CountryUnited States of America
With the participation of a wide range of policymakers -- from Margaret Thatcher to Jimmy Carter to Condoleezza Rice -- it has helped lay the groundwork for new approaches to national and world issues,
There is a whole group of young people now with attitude and sharpness that comes from a Bart Simpson approach to life. The Mickey Mouse Club is not in business. Mickey Mouse was wonderful but Bart Simpson rules today.
I think it's important for CNN to get out as much as possible from the Washington-New York axis, ... This is not some big strategic shift to New York.
It's like when FEMA wasn't really that creative, and the water was rising and people were stranded, ... Once again, people are being stranded and businesses are starting to die.
If you act like you can do something, then it will work.
The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.
if you can't keep him interested, that's your fault.
Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.
Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.
There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth
Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?
And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
Sometimes, to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet, a practice that was not as soothing for his collegues.
I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.