The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation. They prevent innovation from happening. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
iMac is next year's computer for $1,299, not last year's computer for $999. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“I think great artists and great engineers are similar, in that they both have a desire to express themselves. In fact some… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
But it's a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light - that it's going to change everything. Things don't… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The technology companies don't understand creative things at all. Silicon Valley's view of the creative process in Hollywood is a bunch of… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked.… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Our approach is to think of companies not as businesses but as collections of people. We [Apple]want to qualitatively change the way… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products... We trust as… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents'… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The roots of apple were to build computers for people, not for corporations. The world doesn't need another dell or compaq. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Sometimes you innovate, you make mistakes.It is best to admit them quickly and get on improving your other innovations. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I think right now it's a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“Apple at the core, its core value, is that we believe that people with passion can change the world for the better.… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I admire Mark Zuckerberg... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.” — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
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… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“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… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image