Steve Jobs Quotes

It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated.

Steve Jobs

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• Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England.

  

  M.I.A.
  • War
  • Government
  • Island

• These are typically former special operations community personnel who are highly trained in the use of deadly force, also in surveillance detection and also in risk avoidance.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Community
  • Risk
  • Force

• All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Life
  • God
  • Dying

• The more you forget yourself, the more Jesus will think of you.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Jesus
  • Forget

• How frugal is the chariot that bears a human soul.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Bears
  • Human Soul
  • Chariot

• I put everything in that last lap, it was very emotional when I crossed the line. It was all I had, I gave it all.

  

  Sebastian Vettel
  • Emotional
  • Lasts
  • Lines

• A painting has a lot of advantages over other forms of communication. Unlike a movie, you don't have to put it into a machine and turn it on. It's just there every day. It's not limited by the element of time. It's a constant part of the home.

  

  Thomas Kinkade
  • Home
  • Painting
  • Communication

• Whoever you are is to your advantage.

  

  Andrea Modica
  • Advantage
  • You Are

• The world will make you vulnerable. If you're acting like you're not, that's what you're doing.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Doing
  • Vulnerable

• We are at the point where all the obvious things we tell Microsoft to do, they already do it.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Things
  • Obvious
  • Microsoft

• With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Technology
  • Objects
  • Microsoft

• I wrote an album about being in love. I don't think it's possible to write an album while you're in love - why on earth would you bother? I mean, Christ. If you're in there writing songs about someone rather than just being with them and kissing their every molecule, surely the person that you're with must be asking some questions as well.

  

  Gary Lightbody Snow Patrol
  • Questions
  • Album
  • Being In Love

• Patience is a key element of success.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Success
  • Patience
  • Element

• It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Microsoft
  • Copying
  • Mac