Steve Jobs Quotes
The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.
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The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
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An outsider's point of view is always handy.
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We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
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When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
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People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
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I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
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Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them.
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When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.
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I actually didn't always want to be an actor.
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When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?
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Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.
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Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how the world is.
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The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.
