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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.
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I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come
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Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.
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This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy.
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Somebody once told me, 'Manage the top line, and the bottom line will follow.' What's the top line? It's things like, why are we doing this in the first place? What's our strategy? What are customers saying? How responsive are we? Do we have the best products and the best people? Those are the kind of questions you have to focus on.
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What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.
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The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't.
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I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.
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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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I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!
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I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous.
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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.
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If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
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Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers…..
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I don't want to fail, of course. But even though I didn't know how bad things really were, I still had a lot to think about before I said yes. I had to consider the implications for Pixar, for my family, for my reputation. I decided that I didn't really care, because this is what I want to do. If I try my best and fail, well, I've tried my best.
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So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.
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I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.
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The problem with the Internet startup craze isn't that too many people are starting companies; it's that too many people aren't sticking with it.
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Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees.
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The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both.
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If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.
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Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.
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You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.
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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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It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell!
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Steve Jobs
Born:
February 24, 1955
Died:
October 5, 2011
(aged 56)
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Steven Paul Steve Jobs was an American information technology entrepreneur and inventor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc.
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