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Steve Jobs
Age: 56 †
Born: 1955
Born: February 24
Died: 2011
Died: October 5
Computer Scientist
Designer
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Executive Producer
Film Producer
Financier
Inventor
San Francisco County
California
Steven Paul Jobs
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Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower.
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It's not about pop culture, and it's not about fooling people, and it's not about convincing people that they want something they don't. We figure out what we want. And I think we're pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That's what we get paid to do.
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I'm not dismissing the value of higher education I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.
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I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.
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Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat
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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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Focusing is all about saying no
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And 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. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
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Let's make a dent in the universe
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Probably death is the best invention of life.
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Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.
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The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.
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The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades before they ever would have in the old paradigm.
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The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.
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Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
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Don’t let the voice of other people’s opinion drown your inner voice.
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The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems. I believe that very much.
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Don't be evil is a load of crap.
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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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