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Steve Jobs
Age: 56 †
Born: 1955
Born: February 24
Died: 2011
Died: October 5
Computer Scientist
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Engineer
Entrepreneur
Executive Producer
Film Producer
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San Francisco County
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Steven Paul Jobs
Steven Jobs
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All we are is our ideas, or people. That's what keeps us going to work in the morning, to hang around these great bright people. I've always thought that recruiting is the heart and soul of what we do.
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The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It's not a speculative market. It's a very, very large market. It's been around for thousands of years and will be around as long as humans exist.
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The web is just going to be one more of those major change factors that businesses face every decade.
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It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.
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Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.
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It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.
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Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
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Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
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Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.
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I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.
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The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores.
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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?
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I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it.
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We're not a media company. We don't own media. We don't own music. We don't own films or television. We're not a media company. We're just Apple.
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Probably death is the best invention of life.
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