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"If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago."
"Mac OS X Tiger will come out long before Longhorn."
"So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic."
"My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple."
"But it's a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light - that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important."
"I just had a romance that I really care about, a lot-I mean, a lot-go up in smoke. Because of the stress, and the sort of other woman that Macintosh is."
"There's nothing that makes my day more than getting an e-mail from some random person in the universe who just bought an iPad over in the UK and tells me the story about how it's the coolest product they've ever brought home in their lives. That's what keeps me going."
"I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding."
"We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That's what's driven me."
"The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent."
"Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen."
"If you tell people they can't burn CDs of their music, as almost every current legal music service has done, or they can only burn one CD with a track or pay per track per burn extra, nobody is going to go for it."
"It's understandable that the music companies that are comprised of people that are successful by making good creative decisions - they have to decide which out of fifty artists is the next hot one, with no data to go from. It's an intuitive process, and that's what they do well when they're successful. They don't understand technology."
"What this means is that people are seeing a stable business, which is good, and a business that is in control, which is also good."
"I know that living with me was not a bowl of cherries."
"The good music companies do an amazing thing. They have people who can pick the person that's gonna be successful out of 5,000 candidates. And there's not enough information to do that - it's an intuitive process."
"I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out."
"The technology companies don't understand creative things at all. Silicon Valley's view of the creative process in Hollywood is a bunch of guys in their young thirties sitting on a couch, drinking beer, and thinking up jokes."
"When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life."
"It [what you choose to do] has got to be something that you're passionate about because otherwise you won't have the perseverance to see it through."