iMac is next year's computer for $1,299, not last year's computer for $999. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off. — 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
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot… — 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
You know, you keep on innovating, you keep on making better stuff. And if you always want the latest and greatest, then… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime… — 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
The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It's not a speculative market. It's a very, very large market.… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The web is not going to change the world, certainly not in the next 10 years. It's going to augment the world.… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
You're missing it. This is not a one-man show. What's reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there's a lot of really… — 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
At Apple, people are putting in 18-hour days. We attract a different type of person—a person who doesn’t want to wait five… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
And I sort of look at us as two of the luckiest guys [Bill Gates the other] on the planet because we… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The thing that drives me and my colleagues at both Apple and Pixar is that you see something very compelling to you,… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Believe things will work out. How was I ever to know that the girl who broke my heart in university would lead… — 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