Software Quotes by Steve Jobs

8 Software quotes by Steve Jobs

Jobs’ eight remarks on software capture his iconic blend of design passion and business acumen. The selection is concise, giving a quick taste of his visionary outlook.

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

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One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.

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

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When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.

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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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The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it.…

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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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Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

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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…

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I admire Mark Zuckerberg... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot.

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If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have…

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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…

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“Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.”

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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…

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When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop…

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

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“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…

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

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

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

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

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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…

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