Steve Jobs Quotes

If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year.

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• There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • People
  • True
  • Perception

• Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Death
  • End
  • Just Because

• Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Women
  • Interesting

• Our management team strongly believes that the key opportunity of our business does not only come from just the increase in terms of number of users but also how we continue to enhance the value of our platform for our users.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Business
  • Opportunity
  • Team

• I don't weigh into politics.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Politics
  • Weigh

• In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Government
  • Justice
  • Absence

• Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Father

• Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Human
  • Dimensions
  • Refugees

• It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.

  

  Gary Carr
  • People
  • Nice
  • Always

• Don't be afraid to look silly.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Look
  • Afraid
  • Silly

• I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Holidays

• I think the president should be accessible, should answer questions that aren't pre-screened, but I think there should be a little bit of dignity to the presidency.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Think
  • Questions
  • Dignity

• For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Life
  • Family
  • War

• The Constitution was made for ordinary people.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Constitution

• I grew my dreadlocks 12 years ago because they give me the freedom to roll out of bed and not spend hours on my woolly, thick hair. I get tons of dropped jaws and compliments, so I reckon folks like them all right.

  

  Valerie June
  • Freedom
  • Me
  • Hair

• As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Approval
  • Dread
  • Thirst

• May we treasure the divine gift of communication, and may we use it wisely to build and to assist others on this marvelous journey through mortality.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • May
  • Journey
  • Communication

• Honestly is always an option, even when you don't think it is.

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • Option

• Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Best
  • Television
  • Vacation

• Your bones are for life. Look after them and they will carry you far.

  

  Susan Hampshire
  • Life
  • Bones
  • Far

• But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.

  

  Mitchell Reiss
  • People
  • Financial
  • Difference

• If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year.

  

  Steve Jobs
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