Computers Quotes by Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

Apple took the edge off the word 'computer.'

— Steve Jobs

Computers are like a bicycle for our minds

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

The roots of apple were to build computers for people, not for corporations. The world doesn't need another dell or compaq.

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

“It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell" -- about iTunes on Windows computers”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we…

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will…

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we have…

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how…

— Steve Jobs

If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter…

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as…

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are…

— Steve Jobs

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I…

— Steve Jobs

There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware,…

— Steve Jobs

What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help…

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs