Steve Jobs Quotes

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

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• I like mac and cheese.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Like
  • Cheese
  • Mac

• You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Pain

• Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.

  

  James S. Coleman
  • Achievement

• Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • God
  • Art
  • Science

• Today, everybody is more or less conscious of the total failure of the Cuban revolution to produce wealth, to produce a better standard of living for the Cubans. With the exception of small radical parties, Latin Americans know that it's a brutal dictatorship and the longest in Latin American history.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • American
  • History
  • Today

• I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

  

  Sarah Brightman
  • Home
  • Mother

• Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Goals
  • Microsoft
  • Mac

• Between the Community Redevelopment Act, requiring banks to make what I would call very weak loans, and specific quotas that the Congress imposed on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that created the market demand that really led to the subprime phenomenon.

  

  Wilbur Ross
  • Community
  • Congress
  • Created

• Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Year
  • Immigration

• Coming from League One, a lot of tackles go in, and that is where I've learned my trade.

  

  Dele Alli

• 'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

  

  Debra Messing
  • Son
  • Guilty

• Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

  

  Teddy Pendergrass
  • Life
  • Wonderful

• Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I usually forget it, and try something else. I like to work quickly; I never like to waste any time. I never write half a song and come back to it later at all. It all has to be done at once. I lose interest if it doesn't.

  

  Bernie Taupin
  • Forget
  • Interest
  • Waste Time

• The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Great
  • Faith

• On 'The Guiding Light' I enjoyed working with Jamie Goodwin and Ellen Parker, who played my sister. I loved working with Jerry Ver Dorn and Jay Hammer. I mean, there's some great fun people that I've really enjoyed.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • People
  • Great
  • Fun

• Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Consequence
  • Gender
  • Imitation

• Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Practice
  • Chance
  • Choice

• We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Mac
  • Market Research