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Steve Jobs Quotes - Page 20

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Combine science and humanities.

Combine science and humanities.

Humanity

I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it.

Television, Would Be, Use

"Next up for Apple, it's iTV - the television that will respond when you shout at it" by Juliette Garside, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2011.

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.

Team, Reflection, Apples

"14 years later, Dell founder backtracks on Apple attack" by Mark Milian, www.cnn.com. October 18, 2011.

The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point, it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.

Thinking, Want, Tablets

"Steve Jobs: why Android isn't open, and we won't build a 7" iPad" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2010.

People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet.

Cds, People, Burning

Source: www.esquire.com

Electronics was something I could always fall back on when I needed food on the table.

Fall, Tables, Electronics

"Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. October 5, 2011.

Sometimes life hits you like a brick in the face. Don't give up.

Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Faces

Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation. They prevent innovation from happening.

Innovation, Gains, Ibm

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

I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.

Inspirational, Growing Up, Eye

One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out.

Thinking, Technology, Work Out

Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. May 1, 2004.

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

Apples, Expectations, Firsts

"Steve Jobs steps down as Apple CEO" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2011.

So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'

Life, Silly, Technology

"The Future of Computing Power (Fast, Cheap, and Invisible)" by Michio Kaku, bigthink.com.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

Life, Success, Innovation

Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?

Journey, Listening, Acting

Stealing things is everybody's problem. We [Apple Inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it. So people are stealing stuff and we're optimists. We believe that 80 percent of the people stealing stuff don't want to be; there's just no legal alternative.

Believe, Apples, Stealing Things

Source: www.esquire.com

The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades before they ever would have in the old paradigm.

People, Revolution, Computer

I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.

Inspirational, Writing, Wish

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.70, Prabhat Prakashan

In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be a measurement system. And that's the problem with most philanthropy - there's no measurement system. You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation.

Order, Ideas, Giving

Interview with David Sheﬀ, www.scribd.com. February 1, 1985.

The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well.

Technology, Creative, Wells

Source: www.esquire.com

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

Two, Long, Going Away

"Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Business, People, Perspective

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

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

Creativity, Men, Color

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.48, Prabhat Prakashan

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it's not only easier to use but more efficient.

Cutting, Use, Done

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

The HD revolution is over, it happened. HD won. Everybody wants HD.

Want, Revolution, Over It

Steve Jobs keynote at the Apple Special Event, September 1, 2010.

We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we have was that we decided not to try to manage your music library on the iPod, but to manage it in iTunes. Other companies tried to do everything on the device itself and made it so complicated that it was useless.

Ipods, Design, Trying

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.38, Prabhat Prakashan

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