Steve Jobs Quotes
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Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.
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I just had a romance that I really care about, a lot-I mean, a lot-go up in smoke. Because of the stress, and the sort of other woman that Macintosh is.
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I think right now it's a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.
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The good music companies do an amazing thing. They have people who can pick the person that's gonna be successful out of 5,000 candidates. And there's not enough information to do that - it's an intuitive process.
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Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products... We trust as a consequence of that, people will like them, and as another consequence, we'll make some money. But we're really clear about what our goals are.
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Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.
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Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office!
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Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.
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In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.
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I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o'clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that's why we're called Apple.
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There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.
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The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.
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I think Pixar has the opportunity to be the next Disney - not replace Disney - but be the next Disney.
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I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail.
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I try to get people to see what I have. . . . When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams.
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Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
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Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.
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You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.
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When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life. Have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around that you call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can change it. You can influence it. You can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.
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The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
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The journey is the reward...
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A computer is the most incredible tool we've ever seen. It can be a writing tool, a communications center, a supercalculator, a planner, a filer and an artistic instrument all in one, just by being given new instructions, or software, to work from. There are no other tools that have the power and versatility of a computer.
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When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.
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Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down and things may be different tomorrow but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today.