Steve Jobs

Quotes

• “Jobs: Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zo...”
• “When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll mos...”
• “When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. ...”
• “So Mac OS X is cross-platform by design, right from the very beginning. So Mac OS X is singing on Intel processors, and ...”
• “Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust tha...”
• “Well, what we're going to do is get rid of all these buttons, and just make a giant screen-a giant screen. Now, how are ...”
• “If you just want to say, "Steve Jobs invented the world, and then the rest of us came along," that's fine. If you're int...”
• “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the...”
• “I've seen the demonstrations on the Internet about how you can find another person using a Zune and give them a song the...”
• “Steve insists that we're shipping in early 1982, and won't accept answers to the contrary. The best way to describe the ...”
• “The most telling lesson to be learned from Jobs's example might be summed up by inverting one of his favorite marketing ...”
• “We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the ...”
• “If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million...”
• “I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened t...”
• “Steve Jobs was the best marketeer at the intersection of science and art that existed in the 20th century ... he underst...”
• “On the plans for Apple Computer, Inc. to begin using Intel processors in its Macintosh computers during 2006 and 2007. A...”
• “The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation....”
• “Very often, when told of a new idea, he will immediately attack it and say that it is worthless or even stupid, and tell...”
• “Last quarter, we had our best Mac quarter ever. We shipped 1.33 million Macs last quarter. We are really, really happy a...”
• “Keynote address at Apple's annual sales conference first introducing the Macintosh "1984" commercial, which ends with th...”
• “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 hav...”
• “The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a sm...”
• “We hired truly great people and gave them the room to do great work. A lot of companies [...] hire people to tell them w...”
• “This has appeared rather prominently on the internet, usually without indications of a source, and is often attributed t...”
• “To design something really well you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate c...”
• “The original version of the "live each day" quote goes back at least to 1980, when the film Breaker Morant featured the ...”
• “On why he delayed the Leopard OS in favor of developing the iPhone rather than hiring more developers, at the annual App...”
• “I was worth about over a million dollars when I was twenty-three and over ten million dollars when I was twenty-four, an...”
• “Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at le...”
• “A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our ...”
• “Macintosh project manager Bud Tribble first using the term "reality distortion field" in reference to Job's talents in F...”
• “Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It's very fortunate if you can work o...”
• “<!-- Rolling Stone: Nevertheless, you've often talked about how technology can empower people, how it can change their l...”
• “Jobs regularly misses appointments. This is so well-known as to be almost a running joke. It's not funny, hurts Apple's ...”
• “I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and that you couldn't replace one of thes...”
• “On how Apple is the largest developer for Microsoft Windows due to the popularity of its iTunes software, at the All Thi...”
• “I never really get to see, except second hand, how abrupt he is with people. I couldn't be that way with people. But may...”
• “People think it's this veneer - that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we...”
• “I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success - I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success, for the ...”
• “A phrase he has famously used in making announcements of products towards the end of many of his presentations, as quote...”
• “A comment he made in persuading John Sculley to become Apple's CEO, as quoted in Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple: A Journey of A...”
• “I wanted to meet my biological mother mostly to see if she was OK and to thank her, because I'm glad I didn't end up as ...”
• “We've got a great week plan for you. You know, this year we've got 42 hundred registered attendees. This is the largest ...”
• “Miele] really thought the process through. They did such a great job designing these washers and dryers. I got more thri...”
• “On the early rivalry between Macintosh and "IBM-compatible" computers based on Microsoft's DOS, as quoted in Steve Jobs:...”
• “It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 year...”
• “This favorite phrase of Jobs is from the final edition of the Whole Earth Catalog, entitled Whole Earth Epilog (1974), a...”
• “You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and the perfe...”
• “I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had droppe...”
• “But in the end, for something this complicated, it's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, peo...”