Steve Jobs Quotes

The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one.

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• Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Political
  • Authority
  • Rights

• The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Language
  • Same
  • Task

• There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Nature
  • You
  • Butterfly

• Let's get glam. It's all in the way you move. Let's get glam. Don't let the clothes wear you. Let's get glam. It's all an attitude.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Way
  • Moving
  • Attitude

• My personal life may be crowded with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God, and when I stand face to face with God I will discover that through my obedience thousands were blessed. When once God's Redemption comes to the point of obedience in a human soul, it always creates. If I obey Jesus Christ, the Redemption of God will rush through me to other lives, because behind the deed of obedience is the Reality of Almighty God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • May

• I think, in comedy, timing is everything. You and I could tell the same joke, but if one of our timing is off, it won't be as funny. You've gotta know when to deliver your punch-lines.

  

  T.I.
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Romance
  • Income
  • Fascinating

• The goal of this presentation is to impress, rather than inform.

  

  W. A. H. Rushton
  • Goal
  • Personality
  • Impress

• In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

• I remember, once I was stressed, with an upcoming paper deadline. That little Microsoft Word clippy guy would show up in my face, jumping around and asking if I needed help. It had no understanding of my emotions and had zero empathy. That got me interested in this idea of tech being responsive to our emotions.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Help

• Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Time
  • Armies
  • Abolished

• You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

  

  Plato
  • Soul
  • Error
  • Heal

• Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Sleep
  • Fatigue
  • Draught

• I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians - I will not speak of my own trade - soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Man
  • Hate
  • System

• It is only those who feel disconnected and seperated from the Oneness of All That Is that can ever commit evil deeds.

  

  Dean Frazer
  • Evil
  • Feels
  • Deeds

• I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Macintosh

• To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.

  

  Umar
  • Forgiving
  • Oppression
  • Oppressed

• For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Work
  • Matter
  • Connection

• The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Computer
  • Macintosh