Steve Jobs Quotes

I Dropped Out Of Reed College [portland, Oregon] After The First Six Months, But Then Stayed Around As A Drop-in For Another 18 Months Or So Before I Really Quit. So Why Did I Drop Out?

How Can You Get Fired From The Company You Started?

Click. Boom. Amazing!

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

Probably Death Is The Best Invention Of Life.

Apple Is The Only Company In The World That Has All Of That Under One Roof. We Can Invent A Complete A Solution That Works - And Take Responsibility For It.

If You Tell People They Can't Burn Cds Of Their Music, As Almost Every Current Legal Music Service Has Done, Or They Can Only Burn One Cd With A Track Or Pay Per Track Per Burn Extra, Nobody Is Going To Go For It.

I Don't Think I've Ever Worked So Hard On Something, But Working On Macintosh Was The Neatest Experience Of My Life. Almost Everyone Who Worked On It Will Say That. None Of Us Wanted To Release It At The End. It Was As Though We Knew That Once It Was Out Of Our Hands, It Wouldn't Be Ours Anymore.

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.

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.'

I Hate The Way People Use Powerpoints Instead Of Thinking

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.