adviser under Jimmy Carter and uh his I guess counterpart at defense a guy named Walter Sloum they came up with this brilliant idea that what we'll do is wewill bait the Soviets into overexpansion Now, we don't want them to invade West
I really don't. They're falling over for you, too, though. Walter Matthau, words with a K, right?
He is a renowned journalist at heart, having served as the editor-in-chief of "Time" and also as CEO of CNN and the Aspen Institute. Walter is now back in his hometown of New Orleans as a professor of history at Tulane.But you may know him best as an author, and it's quite possible you've read one of his many books.
Matt brought this talk to Google and was instrumental in its preparation, so a big thank you to Matt. Walter Isaacson, it is my great honor to welcome you to "Talks at Google." Thank you very much.It's my great honor to be with you, Leigh.
I flew to the Moon not so much to go there, but as part of developing the system that would allow it to happen." Walter Cronkite asked Neil, when you were on the moon, did you feel closer to god?
I flew to the Moon not so much to go there, but as part of developing the system that would allow it to happen." Walter , sometimes a man just wants a good cigar.
And now I'm here with this guy. Walter , I want to pause for a second on a point you made.So you went to the Culinary Institute of America.
And I get people that want fillets. Walter and I just happen to have experiences that align fairly well.
And I get people that want fillets. Walter and myself-- yeah, we're the final call on everything.
And I get people that want fillets. Walter , you talked a little bit about grass-fed versus corn-fed, some of the misperceptions there.
And I was very interested that you have such an emphasis on play in your reception area, because it seems to me that connects quite-- Walter Benjamin was very, very interested in play, and wrote wonderful things-- wonderful stories for the radio for children.And there is a connection there.
And the old witch, you know, loses her temper, realizes that someone has been getting in, and that Rapunzel is having a baby. Walter Crane, another one.
This is a direct lineage there as well. Walter Gropius, who was running the Bauhaus previously, was down Massachusetts Avenue running the Graduate School of Design at Harvard.So there is a direct connection.
There are many examples of this. Walter Dean Myers is one example.Or as Malinda Lo has noted, quote, "There can be a zillion white authors who write whatever kind of book, but if one marginalized author
He has now eclipsed Werner. Walter has eclipsed Werner.Werner Heisenberg has a conversation with Niels Bohr in Copenhagen, late night, walking through a park, what happens?
You're not going to like this word. Walter 's King Louie. "Tell me the secret of man's red fire, man cub." And Owen's Mowgli.
So when you warm it up, it won't fatigue unless you stretch it pass this endurance limit. Walter , can I add something to this point really quick?
or even grant such an entity access and some degree of control over nuclear weapons. Walter Lippmann wrote that it's a disease of the soul to be in love with impossible things.And proponents of grand proposals that commit nations to surrender their abilities to organize violence-- their military capabilities-- history
Dr. Ari demonstrates that you can integrate deep in the work with transforming every aspect of human life and the world. Walter here is a close friend of Dr. Ari and his family.He chairs-- DR. WALTER LINK: Sarvodaya International.
Sarvodaya international. And as Senior Strategy Advisor and a leadership coach and associate investment banker to the organization, Walter is involved in the same kind of work.His work is integration of personal personal practice into the broader world.
And so they're in the book from having been crowd sourced. Walter , I'd like to ask you a question.Vint and I were both on a panel at the National Academy about a week ago, and one of the questions that came up was,
Because when I was asked to be promoted to a director, I felt like all these boxes hadn't been checked yet. Walter Isaacson of the Aspen Institute just put out the book on the innovators.
Walter Reed and the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting for her work on the CIA's secret prisons and counter-terrorism operations overseas.
Walter was offered a job to move to Paris and and work as a managing editor of the international Herald Tribune so
Walter : At one point, some cardinal in Boston said, "Well, it still smacks of atheism cause it's not a personal God." So, Rabbi Goldstein, head of the Reform Jewish Movement in New
Walter : When he was asked whether he was using the word just symbolically or whatever, he said, "No." He wasn't. He considered himself having a cosmic religion. He thought there
Walter passed away in 1954 and left the amusement pier to his wife, Enid Newcomb. At the time
"Walter Benjamin inhabited that place at which weakness and genius coincide.
Yeah. No sunlight, just refrigeration. The Walter Apfelbaum beauty regimen right here. Exactly. Trademark that before it gets out.
What can folks expect if they haven't been to Prime + Proper yet? Like Walter can kind of speak about, like Keynes, Peter Lugars-- these are meccas of kind of steakhouses. And there's not a lot of places like that that still exist or that are continuing to kind of open.
And as we got the ball rolling for the whole concept, it just became more and more extravagant. Like Walter said, trying to become kind of an institution. There's a lot of places that open up.
And Walter , I feel like we all have so many questions for you, but if I could just ground us in one.
And Walter 's been such an amazing ambassador for Bayard's legacy.
And Walter Isaacson interviewing Bill Gates-- Bill Gates, last five minutes, talking about Khan Academy.
in Walter de Maria's New Mexican installation.
And Walter Alvarez, who was on the original paper attributing the asteroid to killing the dinosaurs, was on this paper a year or two ago with some colleagues, where
So Walter Pahnke spent a year surveying the religious literature, and he developed a questionnaire of the mystical experience, and this was extracted
And Walter Pahnke, who had done the experiment, actually had died in a scuba diving accident in 1971.
Then Walter went off to Georgia Tech to get his PhD in material science and engineering.
And Walter White, he's a very two-sided-- or, well, maybe more than two sides to his character.
And Walter , by that time, was the head of data processing services for the county of Santa Barbara.
But Walter Bradford Cannon turned a gift from the gods into standard biology.
Now Walter Schneider at the University of Pittsburgh has a new scanning technology, which I'm sure some Asperger people had to develop the computer
So Walter Mischel did this study-- some little four-year-olds.
And Walter and I were talking.
When Walter Cronkite used to end his CBS newscast with the rock solid assertion that "that's
said Walter Wells third floor and the rest is history so
John Walter was named leader of AT&T. They held a news conference to announce it and
were Walter and and uh Jerry and what that means is that roughly right you can
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