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
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.
I think the McCain and Lieberman talk about the need for civility in public discourse is right at the core of our mission,
I think we're trying as much as possible to be part of the heart and soul of Aspen,
I'll be in Philadelphia. They are throwing a huge party for him. Hundreds and hundreds of people are coming.
He had a learning experience. It's the most amazing thing for somebody of his stature. It's because by himself, he walked around. He walked around and talked to people.
It's a valid analysis and Lou's trusted to give that analysis.
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.
When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
if you can't keep him interested, that's your fault.
Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.
Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.