“Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book." (Steven Levy)”

—  Walter Isaacson, book Steve Jobs

Source: Steve Jobs

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American writer and biographer 1952

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