Isaacs .
Isaacs : Thank you Cliff.
Isaacs : Yeah, actually that's a very good question.
Isaacs : You know, when I grew up, everyone had chemistry kits.
Isaacs : Send them to us.
Isaacs : At cost.
Isaacson claims that Einstein knew exactly what he was doing when he used words like God and religion.
Walter Isaacson, it is my great honor to welcome you to "Talks at Google." Thank you very much.
Walter Isaacson of the Aspen Institute just put out the book on the innovators.
And Walter Isaacson interviewing Bill Gates-- Bill Gates, last five minutes, talking about Khan Academy.
Even Walt Isaacson's recent book, "The Innovators," doesn't have a single mention of PLATO in it, which is absolutely remarkable.
That is what Walter Isaacson's book on Einstein was.
And instead Walter Isaacson, who was my boss offered to run my column in "Time." And I just remember like, one of those moments where your
And I asked the Colonel Isaacs , Colonel can you-- talking radio talk, you know-- request 24 hours, over.
We are absolutely delighted to have Walter Isaacson here with us today to talk about his latest book, "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks
kind -- I know that Walter Isaacson is doing an authorized biography of Steve Jobs. Actually got a certain degree of access to the meetings at Apple and things like that. I don't know
Anyway, she-- Ellen Isaacs .
Isaacs : I would agree with you actually.
Isaacs : That's a good question.
Because so those of you who've read the Isaacson book know that it pulls no punches.
Some of you will have been here when Walter Isaacson was talking his book "The Innovators." He focused strongly on this pairing of talent.
I didn't see the Sorkin movie, and I didn't read the Isaacson biography, and I don't read the books about my father.
So often you hear about biographies in that format-- and I think that was even the case with Isaacson and Jobs where there was kind of a tension or debate in it,
But you know the name of the people she works with, Walter Isaacson, Sylvia Nasar-- who's the author of "A Beautiful Mind."
And then it was probably only a couple of months later that I was at another social occasion talking to Walter Isaacson, whose book hadn't yet been published,
the team. It was all the stuff you read in Walter Isaacson's book.
And around the same time that that book came out, there was "Steve Jobs," by Walter Isaacson, and of course there had been some Facebook books.
And that story about how Steve Jobs had a brawl and so forth to get that done is very well documented in the Isaacson book and elsewhere.
One of the things, I don’t know if Walter Isaacson has it in his new biography of Jobs but there was a very revealed interview that Terry Gross from Fresh Air did with him in
We're very pleased to welcome Dr. Eric Isaacs from the Argonne National Laboratory.
Dr. Isaacs is professor of the University of Physics in Chicago and he comes from storied career both with Bell Labs and the
But without further ado, please join me in welcoming Dr. Isaacs to Google.
technologies develop, really. And along in 2011 comes the Steve Jobs book by Walter Isaacson.
Six of them are technical books that are variations on how to build a rocket ship, and one of them is Walter Isaacson's bio of Albert Einstein.
for the book? My sources are people typically who worked at Apple at all levels of the organization, very senior, very junior, and in between, and compared with Walter Isaacson's biography
Now, I'm going to just let you in on one other small conversation I had over the weekend with my friend Walter Isaacson.
Steve: For a very different view, let's turn to Einstein's most recent biographer, Walter Isaacson. He says it's a mistake to dismiss Einstein's comments as strictly metaphorical.
not actually, weirdly, I was not given pause by the autobiography, because I know – Look, there is an autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and then there is Walter Isaacson's Benjamin