Why join the navy if you can be a pirate? Steve Jobs More Quotes by Steve Jobs More Quotes From Steve Jobs Some mistakes will be made along the way. That's good. Because some decisions are being made along the way. We'll find the mistakes. We'll fix them. Steve Jobs decision mistake way We limit how much technology our kids use at home. Steve Jobs technology home kids We don't believe it's possible to protect digital content. What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet-- and no one's gonna shut down the Internet. And it only takes one stolen copy to be on the Internet. And the way we expressed it to them is: Pick one lock--open every door. It only takes one person to pick a lock. Worst case: Somebody just takes the analog outputs of their CD player and rerecords it-- puts it on the Internet. You'll never stop that. So what you have to do is compete with it. Steve Jobs cds player believe A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players. Steve Jobs team player running 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 creativity color men Everything is important- that success is in the details. Steve Jobs details important A lot of time, people don't do great things becoz' great things really aren't expected of them. Steve Jobs great-things expected people Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus. Steve Jobs yuck ems want The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can. Steve Jobs curiosity important people My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do. Steve Jobs team trying jobs The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it. Steve Jobs juice world jesus Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better. Steve Jobs microsoft life people You need to have a collaborative hiring process. Steve Jobs insightful process needs It's not about pop culture, and it's not about fooling people, and it's not about convincing people that they want something they don't. We figure out what we want. And I think we're pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That's what we get paid to do. Steve Jobs want-something life thinking I think Pixar has the opportunity to be the next Disney - not replace Disney - but be the next Disney. Steve Jobs next opportunity thinking This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now? Steve Jobs intellectual running years Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow. Steve Jobs important dying death Companies must have a noble cause, and it's the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that it will attract the most talented people in the world to want to join it. Steve Jobs leader jobs people We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build. Steve Jobs best-job people thinking I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art. Steve Jobs people art thinking
