"The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off."
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"My kids accuse me and my wife of being fascists and overly concerned about tech, and they say that none of their friends have the same rules... That's because we have seen the dangers of technology firsthand. I've seen it in myself, I don't want to see that happen to my kids."
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"Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better."
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"We're not going to be the first to this party, but we're going to be the best."
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"The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores."
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"I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous."
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"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."
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"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products."
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"There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything."
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"If we don’t cannibalize ourselves, someone else will."
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"the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize the company"
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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."
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"Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It's very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. ... Apple's been very fortunate in that it's introduced a few of these."
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"Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do."
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"An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is."
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"I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight."
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"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."
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"Don't be evil is a load of crap."
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"I think Pixar has the opportunity to be the next Disney - not replace Disney - but be the next Disney."
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"You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that. Polaroid did that for some years, but eventually Dr. Land, one of those brilliant troublemakers, was asked to leave his own company - which is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of."
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