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.

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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

• 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

• As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Easy
  • Virtue
  • Gratitude

• Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Laws
  • Israel
  • Commands

• 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