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What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.
Steve Jobs
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Steve Jobs
Age: 56 †
Born: 1955
Born: February 24
Died: 2011
Died: October 5
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Steven Paul Jobs
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Death is very likely the single best invention of life.
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Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
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The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.
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I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.
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Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.
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In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing.
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We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.
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It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.
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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.
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We make tools for people. Tools to create, tools to communicate. The age we're living in, these tools surprise you. ... That's why I love what we do. Because we make these tools, and we're constantly surprised with what people do with them.
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