Steve Jobs Quotes
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To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.
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iMac is next year's computer for $1,299, not last year's computer for $999.
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I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous.
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All the work I've done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm fifty.
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The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.
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I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.
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When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.
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But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.
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What this means is that people are seeing a stable business, which is good, and a business that is in control, which is also good.
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Your time on this earth is limited, don’t live someone else's life, live by your vision.
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To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this?
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People say sometimes, "You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world." I don't feel that way. I think I work in one of the slowest. It seems to take forever to get anything done.
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I'm not worried about the country's long-term future. This country is insanely great. What I'm worried about is that we don't talk enough about solutions.
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Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
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One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.
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It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy. On the importance of loving what you do.
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If you don't have a passion, you'll give up.
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We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we're going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young.
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I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.
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Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste.
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I was lucky – I found what I love to do early in life.
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You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future... The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it... Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
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I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.
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If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.