Walter Isaacson — American Writer born on May 20, 1952,

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 Network and the Managing Editor of Time. He has written biographies of Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and Henry Kissinger... (wikipedia)

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.
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.