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Steve Jobs

Science and Technology
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.
4.1 · 58 votes · 72 reads
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Science and Technology
We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.
3.1 · 9 votes · 15 reads
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Science and Technology
We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.
4.0 · 23 votes · 135 reads
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Science and Technology
We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the 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 wante
4.6 · 29 votes · 120 reads
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Science and Technology
We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac.
3.0 · 7 votes · 193 reads
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Science and Technology
We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.
3.3 · 14 votes · 77 reads
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Society
We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powde
3.7 · 26 votes · 178 reads
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Science and Technology
Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.
3.2 · 42 votes · 78 reads
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Science and Technology
What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone.
4.5 · 32 votes · 156 reads
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Art and Culture
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
3.7 · 17 votes · 71 reads
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Art and Culture
When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
3.6 · 57 votes · 163 reads
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Science and Technology
Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.
3.9 · 60 votes · 137 reads
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Society
With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money,
3.1 · 32 votes · 134 reads
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Society
Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
4.8 · 18 votes · 62 reads
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Time
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has n
3.5 · 29 votes · 159 reads
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Science and Technology
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
4.7 · 60 votes · 132 reads
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Society
You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.
4.3 · 30 votes · 131 reads
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Science and Technology
You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.
3.0 · 40 votes · 143 reads
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Time
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 results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have t
4.0 · 62 votes · 16 reads
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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 wit
3.2 · 61 votes · 70 reads
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