Steve Jobs 2013 Quotes

I think [the design] sucks. Its shape is not innovative, it's not elegant and it doesn't feel anthropomorphic. ~ Steve Jobs

When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task. ~ Yves Behar

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. ~ Steve Jobs

You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on. ~ Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was a pretty complicated character and somewhat a psychologically complicated guy. ~ Ashton Kutcher

Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview. ~ Steve Jobs

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

You need something more than just the scientific method to explain the world in which we live. Beware of false dichotomies (either/or situations) that proponents of scientism assume. You should never have to choose whether or not you believe in either a plane's engine or gravity. You can have both. You shouldn't have to accept the existence of Steve Jobs or the iPhone; nor should you have to decide whether you believe in God or science. Those who insist that scientific discoveries disprove God are mistaken. ~ Jon Morrison

It struck me that Steve Jobs, known to be such a brilliant speaker, had a very difficult time explaining things when he was younger. He was describing technology that didn't exist. He had MIT engineers, and he was trying to tell them what he wanted; but there were no terms for what he wanted yet. I think a lot of his early frustration was trying to quickly get his vision to the finish line. ~ Joshua Michael Stern

Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later. ~ Steve Jobs

If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. ~ Will.i.am

Predictions that digital tools would allow workers to telecommute were never fully realized. One of Marissa Mayer's first acts as CEO of Yahoo! was to discourage the practice of working from home, rightly pointing out that "people are more collaborative and innovative when they're together." When Steve Jobs designed a new headquarters for Pixar, he obsessed over ways to structure the atrium, and even where to locate the bathrooms, so that serendipitous personal encounters would occur. Among his last creations was the plan for Apple's new signature headquarters, a circle with rings of open workspaces surrounding a central courtyard. Throughout history ~ Walter Isaacson

To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions. ~ Steve Jobs

Ever since Apple's first brochure proclaimed "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication," Jobs had aimed for the simplicity that comes from conquering complexities, not ignoring them. "It takes a lot of hard word," he said, "to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions. ~ Walter Isaacson

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost. ~ Steve Jobs

It's funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it's time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn't mean it's a good idea. ~ Steve Pavlina

It is fashionable to be a college dropout, no? Like Steve Jobs. ~ Nimrat Kaur

It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that every computer would work this way someday. It was so obvious once you saw it. It didn't require tremendous intellect. It was so clear. ~ Steve Jobs

Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. ~ Steve Jobs

Creation is messy. You want genius, you get madness; two sides of the same coin. ~ Steve Jobs

I did meet Steve Wozniak on several occasions leading up to the filming of the movie [Steve Jobs]. It wasn't really written how he is. So the second I met him, it almost was a relief, because I was like, "OK, good, the real Steve Wozniak is like one of the least confrontational people you would ever meet in your entire life." ~ Seth Rogen

Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a cultural shock than going to India. The people in the Indian countryside don't use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion.
Western rational thought is not an innate human characteristic; it is learned and is the great achievement of Western civilization. In the villages of India, they never learned it. They learned something else, which is in some ways just as valuable but in other ways is not. That's the power of intuition and experiential wisdom.
Coming back after seven months in Indian villages, I saw the craziness of the Western world as well as its capacity for rational thought. If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practice it."
- Steve Jobs ~ Walter Isaacson

If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I'm about to do today ? ~ Steve Jobs

Unlike other product developers, Jobs did not believe the customer was always right; if they wanted to resist using a mouse, they were wrong. ~ Walter Isaacson

Whoever's job it was to keep the room clean was clearly not an overachiever. ~ Steve Hamilton

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

I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot. ~ Steve Earle

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. ~ Steve Jobs

in a 2013 Gallup survey, 70 percent of Americans said they hated their jobs or felt disengaged. ~ Jon Acuff

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that's what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them. ~ Steve Jobs

Most outside experts disagreed. "Maybe it's time Steve Jobs stopped thinking quite so differently," Business Week wrote in a story headlined "Sorry Steve, Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work. ~ Walter Isaacson

Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005] ~ Steve Jobs

I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete. ~ Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was a real rock star to me. I looked forward to his products like people look forward to albums. ~ Fred Armisen