Steve Jobs Quotes

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.

Steve Jobs

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• For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Long
  • Remember

• I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Play
  • Best
  • Struggle

• I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

  

  E. G. Marshall
  • Movies
  • Stock
  • Silent

• I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Small
  • Things
  • Small Things

• Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Different
  • Long
  • Prayer

• TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Good
  • Find
  • Difficult

• I've seen the power of the community. A young person can stand up, talk about his dream, and someone from the audience will come forth to help him make that dream come true. Great things can happen when you place the right ideas before the right audience!

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• Toleration is the best religion.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Best
  • Religion
  • Toleration

• The media is controlled.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Media
  • Controlled

• There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Religion
  • Name

• A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Woman
  • Hurt
  • Thing

• When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Hope
  • Soul

• To me, family is what is important. If you don't have it, nothing is going to matter.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Important
  • Family
  • Me

• I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • People
  • Want
  • Words

• Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Relationship
  • Cousins

• A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • True
  • Happy
  • Nature

• My breadth of football experience, my injury history, and my all-or-nothing goal to become one of the best linebackers in the NFL, combined with all I'd been learning about the game's neurological effects on the brain, convinced me I'd be wise in choosing another career.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Experience
  • History
  • Game

• I know straight away if there are roles I don't want to do, and I have a lot of arguments with my agents about those.

  

  Aneurin Barnard

• When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

  

  Maya Lin
  • People
  • Business
  • War

• I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Body

• Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.

  

  David Ulevitch
  • Good
  • Community
  • Engineering

• The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Engineering
  • Products
  • Apple