"War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been." ~George Carlin~
Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. - Thomas Carlyle. Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter - John Keats
"Picasso had a saying. He said 'Good artists copy, great artists steal.' And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." : Steve Jobs
I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent. : steve jobs Where: Rolling Stone, Dec. 3, 2003
"Making an insanely great product has a lot to do with the process of making the product, how you learn things and adopt new ideas and throw out old ideas. But, yeah, the people who made Mac are sort of on the edge." : SJ Where: Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985
"We did iTunes because we all love music. We made what we thought was the best jukebox in iTunes. Then we all wanted to carry our whole music libraries around with us. The team worked really hard. And the reason that they worked so hard is because we all wanted one. You know? I mean,the first few hundred customers were us." : SJ Where: Fortune, March, 2008.
"When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can oftentimes arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Most people just don't put in the time or energy to get there. We believe that customers are smart, and want objects which are well thought through." : Steve Jobs Where: Newsweek, Oct. 14, 2006.
"It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough -- it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing, and nowhere is that more true than in these post-PC devices." : SJ Where: Seattle Times, March 3, 2011.
"When we laid some people off at Apple a year ago, or when I have to take people out of their jobs, it's harder for me now. Much harder. I do it because that's my job. But when I look at people when this happens, I also think of them as being 5 years old. And I think that person could be me coming home to tell my wife and kids that I just got laid off. Or that could be one of my kids in 20 years. I never took it so personally before. Life is short, and we're all going to die really soon. It's true, you know." : SJ Where: Fortune, Nov., 1998.
" "Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on." : SJ
"There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will." : SJ Where: Macworld Conference and Expo in Jan. 2007
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me. : SJ Where: The Wall Street Journal,1993.
"I'm a big believer in boredom. Boredom allows one to indulge in curiosity and out of curiosity comes everything. All the [technology] stuff is wonderful, but having nothing to do can be wonderful, too." : SJ
