Steve Jobs Quotes

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions... It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. [...] You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.

Steve Jobs

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• I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Student

• I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Going
  • Run
  • Away

• Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Family
  • Searching

• The cold north wind which bows to earthThe lightness of the willow's birthBends not the mountain cedar trees;Folding their branches from the breeze,They stand as if they could defyThe utmost rage of storm and sky.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Cold
  • Wind
  • Sky

• The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • Decision

• Time is the wisest counselor of all.

  

  Pericles
  • Time

• That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls.

  

  Simon Le Bon Duran Duran
  • Band

• I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and unscientific claims.

  

  Chris Toumazou
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Science

• I believe that my worth is not measured by what I do, by the honors that are bestowed upon me, or by material wealth that I might obtain. Instead, I am measured by the courage I show while standing for my beliefs, by the dedication I exhibit to ensure my word is good, and the resolve I undertake to establish my actions and deeds as honorable.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Courage

• I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Death

• It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.

  

  John Archibald Wheeler
  • Different
  • Beautiful
  • Simple

• I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well. What it evolved into was my pseudo-waitressing job when I was auditioning. I didn't wait tables. I did calligraphy for the invitations for, like, Robin Thicke and Paula Patton's wedding.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • Job
  • Pretty
  • Wedding

• I'd love to work with Drake; I'd love to work with Frank Ocean, Jay Z, and Kanye. The list is endless.

  

  Dua Lipa
  • Work
  • Ocean

• Movies are movies, television is television.

  

  Dirk Benedict

• When I first went up to see my editor, I was with my agent, and my editor said, 'Well, what have you been doing all these years?' And my agent said, 'He's been in recovery. From his childhood.'

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Up
  • Childhood
  • Recovery

• The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

  

  David James Duncan
  • Environment

• I gravitate toward women.

  

  Liam Neeson
  • Women

• I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.

  

  Al Hirt
  • Business

• Governor Rauner talks about what he might get done or what he tried to get done. It's past time for all his talk. It's time for action. It's what I've been doing my whole life.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Book
  • Garments

• I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.

  

  Bruno Mars
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Simplicity

• Indeed, we have reached a level of complexity where simplicity itself is suspect. For example, the simple reality is that jobs migrate to less difficult nations. It's the old Rule of Capital: Capital goes where it is treated well.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Reality
  • Simple
  • Simplicity

• The greatest ideas are the simplest.

  

  William Golding
  • Ideas
  • Simplicity
  • Insight

• Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions... It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. [...] You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Simplicity
  • Sophistication