"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
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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs passed away 13 years ago today
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"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
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"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
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"This amazing little device can holds a thousand songs, and it goes right in my pocket." — Steve Jobs, 2001
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"Most people didn't want to learn how to use a computer ; they just wanted to use it." — Steve Jobs, 1990
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"And sometimes, when we get rid of things, like the floppy disk drive on the original iMac, people call us crazy. Sometimes, you just have the pick the things that look like they're going to be the right horses to ride going forward."- Steve Jobs, 2010
03:50 PM Sep 16th, 2023
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"And we finally just said 'Enough is enough. We're tired of these guys trashing over us in the press over this' so we wrote down the reasons why, technically, we didn't choose Flash" — Steve Jobs, D8 conference, 2010
06:05 PM Sep 14th, 2023
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"The reality distortion field was a confounding melange of a charismatic rhetorical style, an indomitable will, and an eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand." - Andy Hertzfeld, 1981
10:46 PM Sep 13th, 2023
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