Steve Jobs Quotes

• The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Necessarily, Color

• 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

• The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don’t understand the software parts of it. And so you really can’t make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple’s the only company that has everything under one roof.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Understand, Company

• The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That’s a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Device, Manage, Storage, Invented

• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Market, Dark

• 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

• That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Truth, Wisdom

  Tags in Focus

• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Wonderful, Tools

• Stay hungry, stay foolish.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Foolish, Hungry

• Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Head

• So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Values, Rich

• So let’s not use a stylus. We’re going to use the best pointing device in the world. We’re going to use a pointing device that we’re all born with – born with ten of them. We’re going to use our fingers. We’re going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Born

• Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Death, Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Hope

• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Failed

• Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Innovation, Industry

• Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We’ve done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it’s much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it’s not only easier to use but more efficient.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Efficient, Kinds, Easier

• 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

• Our DNA is as a consumer company – for that individual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Responsibility, Company

• 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

Steve Jobs (116)

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

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