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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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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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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I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
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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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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.
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Both President Kennedy and President Reagan were roundly criticized by parts of the foreign policy establishment that felt they were being weak by engaging our adversaries. So some of it is built into a political lexicon that makes you sound tougher if you don't talk to somebody, and rather, very loudly, wield a big stick.
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I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!
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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.
