Steve Jobs Quotes

• Older people sit down and ask, ‘What is it?’ but the boy asks, ‘What can I do with it?’

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Boy, Older

• When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Young, Realize, Older

• These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Influence

  Tags in Information, Touch

• Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Creation, Service, Soul

  Tags in Product, Design

• In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Design

• Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Want, Nobody

• Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Business, Goal

  Tags in Biggest

• The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people – as remarkable as the telephone.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Buy, Truly, Beginning

• The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel – one that reads like a mystery to most people. They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Novel, Write, Read

• A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Dots, Linear, Problem, Understanding

• Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Understand

• The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Understand

• It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Competitor, Music

• When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Though, Beautiful

• What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we’re going to reinvent the phone.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mobile, Product

• I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fun, Trying

• Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Learning, Problems

• Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Innovation, Influencing, Everyone, Moments

• You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, because it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attention

• It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Faith

Steve Jobs (116)

Birth:	24th February, 1955
Death:	5th October, 2011
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Entrepreneur, Founder

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