According to Isaacson, Jobs said he was "50-50" on whether he believed in God.
Time and again, Isaacson repeatedly asks Jobs about Gates and Jobs cannot resist the gratuitous dig.
Thanks to Isaacson we now have a few more moments with Jobs like that.
Consider Steve Jobs's view of customers, as told in Walter Isaacson's biography of Mr. Jobs.
By the way, back in April, Isaacson predicted that Tim Cook would settle Jobs' legacy lawsuits.
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Jeffrey Shell, of California, to be Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, vice Walter Isaacson, resigned.
"I hate when people say, 'I'm like Steve Jobs, I drive people to perfection, '" Mr. Isaacson says.
What Isaacson can describe is telling, however: a new European power plug and connector for the Macintosh.
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Isaacson says that Ive was upset that Jobs took too much credit for the ideas behind the products.
The publishers were then able to impose the same model across the industry, Mr. Jobs told Mr. Isaacson.
"Paul is the best manager I've ever worked with, " says Walter Isaacson, Sagan's old boss at Time Warner.
"However, his personality, his methods, have been thrown into a harsh new light by Isaacson's biography, " Kahney told CNN.
"I want to leave a signature campus that expresses the values of the company for generations, " Jobs told Isaacson.
Former Time magazine managing editor Walter Isaacson has written some heavy duty bios.
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As Walter Isaacson notes in his biography of Franklin, he thought that with payment came the possibility of corruption.
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Isaacson predicts perhaps half of his clients will end up in bankruptcy if his theories don't prevail in court.
Interestingly, Isaacson points out that Jobs loved that book and studied it closely.
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As Isaacson writes, Hewlett-Packard ruled the Silicon Valley roost when Apple became Apple Computer Co. in January of 1977.
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It is examining whether Isaacson is liable for penalties for promoting abusive tax shelters or aiding the understatement of tax.
Jobs asked for options on 20 million shares, and his request actually disappointed board member Ed Woolard, according to Isaacson.
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Jobs's biographer Walter Isaacson quotes the Apple CEO as saying that he found it hard to stop working on the design.
Mr. Isaacson, who wrote "Steve Jobs" with Mr. Jobs's permission and cooperation, says he has had numerous inquiries from executives and M.
Jobs has reportedly picked Walter Isaacson, whose lives of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin were both best sellers, to tell his tale.
Despite conducting more than 40 interviews with Jobs himself and interviews with scores of friends, enemies, and acquaintances, Isaacson never tells us.
According to the formula, Ms. Isaacson ranks in the 7th percentile among her teaching peers meaning 93 per cent are better.
Before his death in October, Mr. Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson that he had "finally cracked it, " according to Mr. Isaacson's book.
The angriest Isaacson ever saw Steve Jobs was when the wave of Android phones appeared, running the operating system developed by Google.
"I got into it in my typical nutso way, " Jobs told Isaacson.
And in March the IRS warned taxpayers they could face civil or criminal penalties for taking "frivolous" legal positions that sound like Isaacson's.
Walter Isaacson's new "Steve Jobs" biography reveals that digital textbooks and Internet-enabled TV sets were among Jobs' next areas of focus for Apple.
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