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Steve Jobs describes computers that can watch conditions and trigger actions on their own. He marvels at how the graphical user interface opened the world to millions before anyone else. He also likens a computer to a bicycle that helps the mind move faster.

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iMac is next year's computer for $1,299, not last year's computer for $999.

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Apple took the edge off the word 'computer.'

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Computers are like a bicycle for our minds

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Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

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I try to get people to see what I have. . . . When you run a computer company, you have to…

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The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change…

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Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.

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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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You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain…

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My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple.

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What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of…

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I don't need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster... carrying around these non-connected computers…

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Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists…

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The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades…

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If you view computer designers as artists, they're really into more of an art form that can be mass-produced, like records, or…

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This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use…

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It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built…

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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…

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If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally…

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A computer is the most incredible tool we've ever seen. It can be a writing tool, a communications center, a supercalculator, a…

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Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done…

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When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my…

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I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else.…

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Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country… I decided to take a calligraphy class to…

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John Sculley ruined Apple and he ruined it by bringing a set of values to the top of Apple which were corrupt…

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The difference between the best worker on computer hardware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you're lucky. With automobiles,…

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This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very…

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If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally…

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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…

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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is…

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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…

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Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

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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…

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The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide…

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The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop…

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I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and…

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I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in…

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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…

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Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or…

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“Finally Jobs proposed Apple Computer. “I was on one of my fruitarian diets,” he explained. “I had just come back from the…

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I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.

“To YoYo Ma: "You playing is the best argument I've ever heard for the existence of God, because I don't really believe a human…

The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the…

The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it.

“I think great artists and great engineers are similar, in that they both have a desire to express themselves. In fact some of the…

It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will…