Steve Jobs Quotes
This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
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We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
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To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.
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It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
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Palestinian people are in love with life.
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As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West.
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I'm a little weird that way. I don't really know how to express my happiness.
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I want to keep Flume kind of experimental, weird, melodic, pretty.
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Democrats hate Democrats most of all.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.
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My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.
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Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.
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I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.
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Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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We grow by letting the customer tell us. So when the customer tells us that they're frustrated, that they just got their catalogue and we're already out of a product they wanted, then it tells me that we're not making enough. We let the customer tell us instead of creating an artificial demand for our products. Any time you're making products that people don't need, you're at the mercy of the economy, you're at the mercy of whatever is going on. So we tried to avoid that situation.
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This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
