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" And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing. "
Going
Doing
Your
" But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course. "
News
September
Generation
" Especially right after 9/11. Especially when the war in Afghanistan is going on. There was a real sense that you don't get that critical of a government that's leading us in war time. "
Time
War
Real
" For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence. "
Some People
Evidence
God
" He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs. "
Said
Key
Understanding
" I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom. "
Think
Information
Power
" I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons. "
Us
Think
Most
" I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker. "
You
Going
Important
" I have a strong emotional respect for Steve. "
Emotional
Respect
Steve
" In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive. "
Go
Need
Internet
" I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value. "
Things
Think
Value
" I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news. "
Great
People
Think
" I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism. "
Important
You
War
" I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering. "
People
Think
Smart
" I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved. "
Think
Values
Look
" I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong. "
Think
Strong
You
" I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business. "
Try
Create
Parents
" I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings. "
Think
Downs
Ups And Downs
" I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding. "
End
Journalism
Money
" I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people on so you can beat them up or, you know, make fools out of them or something. "
Know
Looking
People
" I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies. "
Abundance
Always
Subjects
" I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.' "
Way
Why
Jobs
" I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant. "
Mind
Humor
Pain
" I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done. "
Big
Done
Now
" Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business. "
See
Business
Conflict
" Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world. "
Spiritual
World
Important
" More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other. "
Serious
Effort
Rebel
" One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters. "
Talk
Air
Great
" Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change. "
Care
Take Care
Avoid
" Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box. "
Box
Think
Smart People
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