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Steve Jobs would have been 70 years old today 06:08 PM Feb 24th from web
"We like to talk about the post-pc era, but when it really starts to happen, I think it's uncomfortable for a lot of people, cause it's change, and a lot of vested interests are gonna change. It's gonna be different." — Steve Jobs, D8 conference, 2010 03:11 PM Feb 23rd from web
"The Apple II was actually the first computer to come fully assembled where you didn’t have to do anything. And the reason there was it was our observation that for every hardware hobbyist, there were a thousand potential software hobbyists."— Steve, 1990 12:17 AM Feb 23rd from web
Steve Jobs passed away 13 years ago today 03:16 PM Oct 5th, 2024 from web
"I am exceptionally proud of the 175 people that work at NeXT. When we started the company, we just started it with a fresh sheet of paper."— Steve Jobs, NeXT Cube Intro, 1988 11:39 AM Aug 5th, 2024 from web
"One of the things that I've always found is that you've gotta start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're gonna try to sell it." — Steve Jobs, WWDC, 1997 01:23 PM Jun 13th, 2024 from web
"Everything I've done in my life has been along pretty much a single vector, and NeXT is just one more point on that same vector. " — Steve Jobs, 1990 09:50 AM Jun 12th, 2024 from mobile
"This amazing little device can holds a thousand songs, and it goes right in my pocket." — Steve Jobs, 2001 07:13 PM May 3rd, 2024 from web
"Most people didn't want to learn how to use a computer ; they just wanted to use it." — Steve Jobs, 1990 06:43 PM Apr 21st, 2024 from web
"To build a great company, you need more than a great product. You have to pay attention to all the different areas and be as aggressive with them as with your product. Otherwise, you'll spend half your time fixing things that break." — Steve Jobs, 1989 07:46 PM Oct 2nd, 2023 from web
"We want a company where really bright people can come and be handed a lot of responsibility early on. If we have an exciting place to work, we can get the best and the brightest to come work here." — Steve Jobs, 1989 04:26 PM Sep 30th, 2023 from web
"Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." - Steve Jobs 04:57 PM Sep 28th, 2023 from web
"If we hadn't made blues boxes, there wouldn't have been no Apple. Because we wouldn't have not only the confidence that we could build something and make it work, but we also had the sense of magic that we could influence the world." -Steve Jobs, 1994 09:55 PM Sep 27th, 2023 from web
"We're called Microsoft. And our part of Macintosh is five new programs that are bright, intuitive, outgoing, understanding and born to perform." — Microsoft Ad for the Macintosh, MacWorld Magazine, 1987 09:23 PM Sep 26th, 2023 from web
"You’ve got to be a really good talent scout because no matter how smart you are, you need a team of great people. You’ve got to figure out how to size people up fairly quickly, make decisions without knowing people too well" - Steve Jobs, 2007 11:26 PM Sep 24th, 2023 from web
"Why can't we have computers talking to us in English language ? Looking back, five years later, this looks like a trivial observation. But at the time, it was cataclysmic." — Steve Jobs, 1990 11:15 PM Sep 22nd, 2023 from web
"There are lots of examples where not the best product wins. Windows would be one of those, but there are examples where the best product wins. And the iPod is a great example of that." - Steve Jobs, 2004 08:45 PM Sep 20th, 2023 from web
"Believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path. And that will make all the difference." - Steve Jobs, 2005 06:29 PM Sep 19th, 2023 from web
"The important thing is to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live it in - versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it." - Steve Jobs, 1994 09:09 PM Sep 18th, 2023 from web
"I think that people that are able to make a sustained contribution over time, rather than just a peak, are very internally driven." - Steve Jobs, 1991 05:03 PM Sep 17th, 2023 from web