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If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you. ~ Steve Jobs
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This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had. ~ Steve Jobs
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Guess who surprised themselves and changed their minds. ~ Steve Jobs
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I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. ~ Steve Jobs
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Ask for feedback from people with diverse backgrounds. Each one will tell you one useful thing. If you're at the top of the chain, sometimes people won't give you honest feedback because they're afraid. In this case, disguise yourself, or get feedback from other sources. ~ Steve Jobs
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We've had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren't going to lay off people, that we'd taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place; the last thing we were going to do is lay them off. ~ Steve Jobs
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The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive. ~ Steve Jobs
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I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete. ~ Steve Jobs
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Kate Winslet [for Steve Jobs movie, 2015] is the darling. If you wanna be the king you gotta kill the king. I think Charlotte [Rampling] is the dark horse on this one. No one does classic beauty better than her. ~ Bun B.
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Microsoft's philosophy is to get it out there and fix it later. Steve [Jobs] would never do that. He doesn't get anything out there until it is perfected. ~ John Sculley
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Steve Jobs had been known to ask: What are you passionate about in your life? "If this is just a job to you, it's the wrong place, ~ Carmine Gallo
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I'd been rejected, but I was still in love, so I decided to start over. ~ Steve Jobs
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The web is just going to be one more of those major change factors that businesses face every decade. ~ Steve Jobs
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I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this. ~ Steve Jobs
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Ad campaigns are necessary for competition. But good PR educates people; that's all it is. ~ Steve Jobs
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... you'll know when you find it. ~ Steve Jobs
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Collins, echoing Ed Catmull, "What separates people is the return on luck, what you do with it when you get it. What matters is how you play the hand you're dealt." He continues, "You don't leave the game, until it's not your choice. Steve Jobs had great luck at arriving at the birth of an industry. Then he had bad luck in getting booted out. But Steve played whatever hand he was dealt to the best of his ability. Sometimes you create the hand, by giving yourself challenges that will make you stronger, where you don't even know what's next. That's the beauty of the story. Steve's almost like the Tom Hanks character in Castaway - just keep breathing because you don't know what the tide will bring in tomorrow. ~ Brent Schlender
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More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other. ~ Walter Isaacson
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Do we have Steve Jobs to thank for the iPod and iPod shuffle? iTunes? I think so. He changed the way we hear and think about music ... ~ John Taylor
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I don't have any skeletons in my closet that can't be allowed out. ~ Walter Isaacson
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You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk
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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
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There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going. ~ Steve Jobs
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You either did or you didn't - there is no try. - Steve Jobs. ~ Adam Lashinsky
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Whatever the new movie about Apple founder Steve Jobs unearths, one thing is doubtless: we will switch our Apple computers right back on (maybe to talk about it, maybe not) right after we see the film. Could anything short of one genuine civic conscience, related in all sincerity stop us from miring ourselves in pirouettes of unreality, counting stickers on blue and white virtual flypaper as dearer in our imaginations than anyone in our daily lives, perhaps even our own family members? ~ John Thomas Allen
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I want to express my deepest condolences at the passing of Steve Jobs, one of the founders of our industry and a true visionary. My heart goes out to his family, everyone at Apple and everyone who has been touched by his work, ~ Steve Ballmer
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Steve [Jobs] and I spent months getting to know each other before I joined Apple. He had no exposure to marketing other than what he picked up on his own. This is sort of typical of Steve. When he knows something is going to be important, he tries to absorb as much as he possibly can. ~ John Sculley
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I used to sleep on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke
bottles for food, money, and getting weekly free meals at a local temple ~ Steve Jobs
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I was worth about over a million dollars when I was 23 and over ten million dollars when I was 24, and over a hundred million dollars when I was 25 and ... it wasn't that important - because I never did it for the money. ~ Steve Jobs
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The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years
of work before they took off. ~ Steve Jobs
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In a now famous commencement speech at Stanford University, Steve Jobs urged the graduating class to "stay hungry. Stay foolish." Never let go of your appetite to go after new ideas, new experiences, and new adventures. Compete with yourself, not with others. Judge yourself on what is your personal best and you'll accomplish more than you could ever have imagined. Life stops for no one, so keep moving. Stay awake and stay alive. ~ Sophia Amoruso
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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
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I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don't. It's the great mystery. (Steve Jobs) ~ Walter Isaacson
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He [Steve Jobs] had more of the future vision: We can bring this to everyone; we can start a company; we can sell it. ~ Steve Wozniak
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The young Steve Jobs had a hard time articulating something that didn't exist. He could see it, taste it, knew what it felt like, but he didn't have all the language because it hadn't been invented yet. People didn't fathom the personal computer on a mass produced level. ~ Joshua Michael Stern
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I personally admire Steve Jobs not most for what he did, or what he said, but for what he stood for. The largest lesson I learned from Steve was that the joy in life is in the journey, and I saw him live this every day. ~ Tim Cook
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It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated. ~ Steve Jobs
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In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing. ~ Steve Jobs
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Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner. ~ Marc Guggenheim
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What makes Steve [Jobs'] methodology different from everyone else's is that he always believed the most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do. He's a minimalist. ~ John Sculley
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Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 - the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years. ~ Carol Bartz
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Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence. ~ Steve Jobs
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Your customers don't care about you. They don't care about your product or service. They care about themselves, their dreams, their goals. Now, they will care much more if you help them reach their goals, and to do that, you must understand their goals, as well as their needs and deepest desires. ~ Steve Jobs
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I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple in terms of his leadership, his innovation, not settling for mediocrity. ~ Howard Schultz
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Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right. ~ Dennis Ritchie
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One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer. ~ Jonathan Ive
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If you view computer designers as artists, they're really into more of an art form that can be mass-produced, like records, or like prints, than they are into fine arts. They want something where they can express themselves to a large number of people through their medium, and their medium is technology and manufacturing. ~ Steve Jobs
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If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution. ~ Steve Jobs
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But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem. ~ Steve Jobs
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People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things. ~ Steve Jobs
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Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields. ~ Steve Jobs
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A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets. ~ Steve Jobs
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Fear of failure falls away in the face of death. ~ Steve Jobs
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I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that. ~ Steve Jobs
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We're not going to be the first to this party, but we're going to be the best. ~ Steve Jobs
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The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well. ~ Steve Jobs
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Find people who are competent and really bright, but more importantly, people who care exactly about the same things you care about. ~ Steve Jobs
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If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win. ~ Steve Jobs
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If you keep your eye on the profit, you're going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow. ~ Steve Jobs
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You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first. ~ Malcolm Gladwell
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The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it too. ~ Steve Jobs
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Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A players; B players hire C
players; and C players hire D players. It doesn't take long to get to Z
players. This trickle-down effect causes bozo explosions in companies. ~ Guy Kawasaki
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Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business. ~ Naveen Jain
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We hire people who want to make the best things in the world. ~ Steve Jobs
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It is fashionable to be a college dropout, no? Like Steve Jobs. ~ Nimrat Kaur
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The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It's terrible. ~ Steve Jobs
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Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life. ~ Steve Jobs
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What we're doing here will send a giant ripple through the universe. ~ Steve Jobs
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We limit how much technology our kids use at home ~ Steve Jobs
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that. ~ Aaron Sorkin
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To go forward you have to leave something behind ~ Steve Jobs
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It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. ~ Steve Jobs
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By the end of his career, he [Steve Jobs] has proven that he can do the impossible, and he has gathered probably the most loyal team of eight players of any business in America. ~ Walter Isaacson
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The thing that drives me and my colleagues at both Apple and Pixar is that you see something very compelling to you, and you don't quite know how to get to it, but you know, sometimes intuitively, it's within your grasp. And it's worth putting in years of your life to make it come into existence. ~ Steve Jobs
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Life is short and we're all going to die very soon ~ Steve Jobs
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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
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It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples. ~ Marcus Buckingham
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Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. ~ Steve Jobs
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Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple. ~ Steve Jobs
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I was in the parking lot, with the key in the car, and I thought to myself: If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman? I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she'd have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town, and we've been together ever since. ~ Steve Jobs
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Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died. ~ Richard Stallman
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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
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If today were my last day, would I do what I'm doing? ... If the answer was 'No' too many days in a row, I'd make a change. ~ Steve Jobs
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We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II. ~ Ian Anderson
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It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up. ~ Steve Jobs
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Steve [Jobs] is unique. There aren't many clients that are like that. You have one guy that you really work for. That's very rare. ~ Lee Clow
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Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation. They prevent innovation from happening. ~ Steve Jobs
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I was voluntarily poor when I was in college and India, and I lived a pretty simple life when I was working. So I went from fairly poor, which was wonderful because I didn't have to worry about money, to being incredibly rich, when i also didn't have to worry about money.' - Steve Jobs ~ Walter Isaacson
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[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me. ~ Steve Jobs
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[Steve Jobs] chafed at not being in control, and he sometimes hallucinated or became angry. Even when he was barely conscious, his strong personality came through. At one point the pulmonologist tried to put a mask over his face when he was deeply sedated. Jobs ripped it off and mumbled that he hated the design and refused to wear it. Though barely able to speak, he ordered them to bring five different options for the mask and he would pick a design he liked. ~ Walter Isaacson
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Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer ... because it teaches you how to think. ~ Steve Jobs
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Focusing is about saying No. ~ Steve Jobs
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The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts. ~ Steve Jobs
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There is a Steve [Jobs] that Apple would like to actually present to the public. They have a character, Steve, and they want to keep that story going. And it's very important that writers challenge that occasionally and not just trust their parent companies to tell them. ~ Danny Boyle
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There may be no greater tribute to Steve Jobs' success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented. ~ Barack Obama
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One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are. ~ Walter Isaacson
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I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous. ~ Steve Jobs
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When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions. ~ Steve Jobs
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When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it ... Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again. ~ Steve Jobs
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We're always talking about following your passion. But we're all part of the flow of history ... you've got to put something back into the flow of history that's going to help your community ... People will say, this person didn't just have a passion, he cared about making something that other people could benefit from. ~ Steve Jobs
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