Top 605 Quotes & Sayings by Steve Jobs - Page 10

I used to sleep on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke bottles for food, money, and getting weekly free meals at a local temple

I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding.

There are sneakers that cost more than an iPod.

My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple.

The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Mac OS X Tiger will come out long before Longhorn.

So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.

What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

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

The roots of apple were to build computers for people, not for corporations. The world doesn't need another dell or compaq.

You know, you keep on innovating, you keep on making better stuff. And if you always want the latest and greatest, then you have to buy a new iPod at least once a year.

If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.

It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that every computer would work this way someday. It was so obvious once you saw it. It didn't require tremendous intellect. It was so clear.

Click. Boom. Amazing!

I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a year?

Innovation means saying 'no' to a thousand things.

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.

There will always be music on the Internet that people can steal. What's new is not theft. What's new is a distribution channel for stolen property called the Internet. So there will always be illegal music on the Internet.

The good music companies do an amazing thing. They have people who can pick the person that's gonna be successful out of 5,000 candidates. And there's not enough information to do that - it's an intuitive process.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.

It's understandable that the music companies that are comprised of people that are successful by making good creative decisions - they have to decide which out of fifty artists is the next hot one, with no data to go from. It's an intuitive process, and that's what they do well when they're successful. They don't understand technology.

If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.

The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't.

We just wanted to build the best thing we could build

I think we need editorial oversight now more than ever. Anything we can do to help newspapers find new ways of expression that will help them get paid, I am all for.

I hate the way people use PowerPoints instead of thinking

To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this?

I think the world's a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn't to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right?

I know that living with me was not a bowl of cherries.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.

The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful.

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.

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.

I make 50 cents for showing up... and the other 50 cents is based on my performance.

This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had.

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

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.

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 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated.

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.'

LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

What this means is that people are seeing a stable business, which is good, and a business that is in control, which is also good.

Let them know precisely what you are going to do with their data

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

There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic?

I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail.

But it's a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light - that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important.

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

digital hub (center of our universe) is moving from PC to cloud - PC now just another client alongside iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, ... - Apple is in danger of hanging on to old paradigm too long (innovator's dilemma) - Google and Microsoft are further along on the technology, but haven't quite figured it out yet - tie all of our products together, so we further lock customers into our ecosystem

You've probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind of you and you can't breathe. That's how I felt.

I have enough to last for the rest of my life.

Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.

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 not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

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.

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

Apple stores are intended not just to move boxes, but to enrich lives.

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy. On the importance of loving what you do.

If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have bought the company.

We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That's what's driven me.

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.