William Faulkner
Novelist, Poet, Playwright
"The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in."
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Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
"When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back."
Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
"We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."
Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
"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, you can build your own things that other people can use."
Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
"For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through."
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"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."
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"Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life."
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"You've got to find what you love."
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"The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament."
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"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me."
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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."
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"Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world."
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"Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose."
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"I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things."
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"We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them."
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"I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism is under assault."
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"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."
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"People ask me, "How's Teen Wolf?," and I tell them it's literally the best job I've ever had."
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"And 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. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important."
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"When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want."
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"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."
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"I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back."
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"You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers."
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"I told [Bill Gates] I believed every word of what I said but that I should never have said it in public. I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger."
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"It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy."
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