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The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.

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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
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San Francisco County
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Steven Paul Jobs
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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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The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work
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If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
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We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn't forced to be the systems integrator.
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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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Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?
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If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.
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I don't mind if people don't like me. Well, I might a little ... but I really mind it when somebody uses their position at Time magazine to tell 10 million people they don't like me. I know what it's like to have your private life painted in the worst possible light in front of a lot of people.
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I think Pixar has the opportunity to be the next Disney - not replace Disney - but be the next Disney.
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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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I make 50 cents for showing up... and the other 50 cents is based on my performance.
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Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.
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We don't settle for anything less than excellence.
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Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction.
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Customers don't measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.
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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
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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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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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I can help the next generation remember the lineage of great companies here and how to continue the tradition. The Valley has been very supportive of me. I should do my best to repay.
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