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"Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost."
"Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me."
"I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with fifty average people."
"But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business."
"We believe people with passion can change the world for the better. That's what we believe. And we believe that those people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that actually do."
"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there."
"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."
"Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company."
"The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad."
"You‘ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the other way around."
"In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you."
"If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right"
"Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow."
"If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away."
"There are sneakers that cost more than an iPod."
"You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest."
"It's the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90% of the work. And if you just tell people, 'here's this great idea,' then of course they can go off and make it happen. The problem with that is that there's a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a having a great idea and having a great product."
"I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals."
"I'm very excited about having the Internet in my den."
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards."