"I hate the way people use PowerPoints instead of thinking"
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"It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over."
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"The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful."
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"People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet."
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"The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one."
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"I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a year?"
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"The HD revolution is over, it happened. HD won. Everybody wants HD."
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"The roots of apple were to build computers for people, not for corporations. The world doesn't need another dell or compaq."
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"I don't mind if people don't like me. Well, I might a little ... but I really mind it when somebody uses their position at Time magazine to tell 10 million people they don't like me. I know what it's like to have your private life painted in the worst possible light in front of a lot of people."
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"We did not enter the search business. Google entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them."
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"I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore."
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"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."
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"We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac."
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"Breakthrough is how to distinguish a leader and who followed"
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"You're missing it. This is not a one-man show. What's reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there's a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years, and some of them were on the verge of starting to believe it themselves. But they're not losers. What they didn't have was a good set of coaches, a good plan. A good senior management team. But they have that now."
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"When we started off we didn't know how to spell software."
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"Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview."
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"Bill Gates'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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"I'd rather be a Pirate than join the Navy"
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"Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap."
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