Steve Jobs quotes - page 7

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. (Steve Jobs)
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.
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The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.
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I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.
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Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.
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When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand.
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We shipped 1.33 million Macs last quarter.
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You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don't settle.
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And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.
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This is the largest WWDC ever so thank you very much for making this a record event for us.
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And that's why I don't like putting on-off switches on Apple devices. (Steve Jobs)
I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check.
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Think different and then again.
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When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down.
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I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.
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Sometimes I believe in God, sometimes I don't. I think it's 50-50 maybe.
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California has a sense of experimentation and a sense of openness-openness to new possibilities.
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Woz and I very much liked Bob Dylan's poetry, and we spent a lot of time thinking about a lot of that stuff.
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Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue.
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And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.
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Rolling Stone: It's been 10 years since the PC revolution started. Rational people can debate about whether technology has made the world a better place – Jobs: The world's clearly a better place. Individuals can now do things that only large groups of people with lots of money could do before. What that means is, we have much more opportunity for people to get to the marketplace - not just the marketplace of commerce but the marketplace of ideas. The marketplace of publications, the marketplace of public policy. You name it. We've given individuals and small groups equally powerful tools to what the largest, most heavily funded organizations in the world have. And that trend is going to continue. You can buy for under $10,000 today a computer that is just as powerful, basically, as one anyone in the world can get their hands on. (Steve Jobs)
If you want it, you can fly, you just have to trust you a lot.
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Jobs: Let me compare it with IBM. How come the Mac group produced Mac and the people at IBM produced the PCjr? We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build. 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. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through. Playboy: Are you saying that the people who made the PCjr don't have that kind of pride in the product? Jobs: If they did, they wouldn't have turned out the PCjr.
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Rolling Stone: It's been 10 years since the Macintosh was introduced. When you look around at the technological landscape today, what's most surprising to you? Jobs: People say sometimes, "You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world." I don't feel that way. I think I work in one of the slowest. It seems to take forever to get anything done. All of the graphical-user interface stuff that we did with the Macintosh was pioneered at Xerox PARC [the company's legendary Palo Alto Research Center] and with Doug Engelbart at SRI [a future-oriented think tank at Stanford] in the mid-'70s. And here we are, just about the mid-'90s, and it's kind of commonplace now. But it's about a 10-to-20-year lag. That's a long time.
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Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
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