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Steve Jobs Quotes - Page 11

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[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me.

[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me.

School, College, Curiosity

It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that every computer would work this way someday. It was so obvious once you saw it. It didn't require tremendous intellect. It was so clear.

Knowing, Stuff, Way

I don't really care about being right, I just care about success. I don't mind being wrong, and I'll admit that I'm wrong a lot. It doesn't really matter to me too much. What matters to me is that we do the right thing.

Inspirational, What Matters, Mind

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

Business, Humorous, Small Jobs

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.68, Prabhat Prakashan

I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.

Life, Creating Things, Years

"Steve Jobs obituary" by Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2011.

I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!

Learning, Knowledge, Thinking

I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous.

Buying, Ridiculous, Ends

"10 great quotes from Steve Jobs" by Brandon Griggs, www.cnn.com. January 4, 2016.

I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money.

People, Degrees, Lucky

The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking with it.

Inspirational, People, Problem

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.69, Prabhat Prakashan

That's what makes great products. It's not process-it's content.

Process, Products

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

Beautiful, Wall, Best Job

"Steve Jobs quotes: the man in his own words", www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2011.

I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.

Inspirational, Life, Life Lesson

"Stop Judging and Start Learning" by Lolly Daskal, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 22, 2013.

Design isn't just how it looks. It's how it works.

Design, Looks

Innovation means saying 'no' to a thousand things.

Mean, Innovation, Saying No

"18 Innovation Lessons From Steve Jobs" by Thomas Oppong, alltopstartups.com. August 10, 2011.

My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

Jobs, Team, Trying

"Steve Jobs speaks out", archive.fortune.com.

Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.

People, Groups, Use

It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding.

People, Understanding, Intellectual

Technology alone is not enough.

Technology, Enough

"Without Jobs as CEO, Who Speaks for the Arts at Apple?" by Tim Carmody, www.wired.com. August 29, 2011.

All we are is our ideas, or people. That's what keeps us going to work in the morning, to hang around these great bright people. I've always thought that recruiting is the heart and soul of what we do.

Inspiring, Morning, Heart

I'm one of the few people who understands how producing technology requires intuition and creativity, and how producing something artistic takes real discipline.

Real, Creativity, Technology

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Inspiring, Art, Design

"Steve Jobs Through The Years" by Mike Isaac, www.wired.com. October 5, 2011.

To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.

Thinking, Eight, Years

Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

Intuition, Curiosity, Priceless

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

Why would I ever want to run Disney? Wouldn't it make more sense just to sell them Pixar and retire?

Running, Want, Pixar

As quoted in Fortune, February 23, 2004.

It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.

Life, Artist, Amazing Job

"Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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