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Steve Jobs Quotes - Page 19

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The world doesn't need another Dell or Compaq.

The world doesn't need another Dell or Compaq.

Needs, World, Dell

That's why I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete. I think that's one of Apple's challenges, really. When two young people walk in with the next thing, are we going to embrace it and say this is fantastic? Are you going to be willing to drop our models, or are we going to explain it away? I think we'll do better, because we're completely aware of it and we make it a priority.

Inspiring, Thinking, Two

Interview with David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one.

People, Use, Computer

Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.

Running, Business, Passion

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

Dark, Years, Best Job

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.39, Prabhat Prakashan

Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.

Reason, Ceo, Janitor

"Apple Employees Tell the Secrets Behind Steve Jobs' 'Magic'" by Brian X. Chen, www.wired.com. May 9, 2011.

We did not enter the search business. Google entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them.

Mistake, Iphone, Phones

"24 Quotes From The Genius Behind Apple" by Michael Cramton, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2011.

Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.

Art, Taste, Great Art

"Portrait of the Artist Behind Apple" by Manohla Dargis, www.nytimes.com. August 15, 2013.

Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

Change, Work, Life Changing

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

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.

Inspirational, Life Lesson, Teenager

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.67, Prabhat Prakashan

Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview. So, in the end, it's ultimately based on your gut. How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they're challenged? I ask everybody that: 'Why are you here?' The answers themselves are not what you're looking for. It's the meta-data.

Inspirational, Data, Answers

Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

Life, Dropping Acid, Best Job

Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.

Art, Land, Organization

I was worth about over a million dollars when I was 23 and over ten million dollars when I was 24, and over a hundred million dollars when I was 25 and... it wasn't that important — because I never did it for the money.

Important, Dollars, Hundred

"Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires". PBS Documentary, 1996.

One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.

Two, Numbers, People

The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient ... 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. It's ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea.

Mean, Night, Thinking

"The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

I would rather gamble on our vision than make a 'me, too' product.

Inspirational, Leadership, Vision

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.

Stress, Mean, Science

If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.

Mistake, Dark, Winning

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.47, Prabhat Prakashan

The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both.

Art, Technology, Ipads

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

There's nothing that makes my day more than getting an e-mail from some random person in the universe who just bought an iPad over in the UK and tells me the story about how it's the coolest product they've ever brought home in their lives. That's what keeps me going.

Home, Ipads, Stories

"Steve Jobs' e-mail to fan: 'Life is fragile'" by Mark Milian, www.cnn.com. November 28, 2011.

I don't need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster... carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine by comparison.

Needs, Byzantine, Computer

Steve Jobs Apple WWDC Keynote, www.onstartups.com. 1997.

I don't mind if people don't like me. Well, I might a little ... but I really mind it when somebody uses their position at Time magazine to tell 10 million people they don't like me. I know what it's like to have your private life painted in the worst possible light in front of a lot of people.

Light, People, Mind

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Inspirational, Time, Money

"Fortune" Magazine, November 9, 1998.

Make it like a sunflower.

Design, Sunflower

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