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Steve Jobs
Age: 56 †
Born: 1955
Born: February 24
Died: 2011
Died: October 5
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When I went to school, it was right after the '60s and before this general wave of practical purposefulness had set in.... The idealistic wind of the '60s was still at our backs, though, and most of the people I know who are my age have that engrained in them forever.
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There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.
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I don't need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster... carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine by comparison.
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We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.
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First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we're going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product - the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.
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You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.
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I was worth about over a million dollars when I was 23 and over ten million dollars when I was 24, and over a hundred million dollars when I was 25 and... it wasn't that important — because I never did it for the money.
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I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.
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We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.
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It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
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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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You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest.
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Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
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Combine science and humanities.
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When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs.
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It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done. And then try to bring those things in to what you're doing.
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