Steve Jobs Quotes

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don't really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music. We mad e the iPod for ourselves, and when you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.

It reinforced my sense of what was important — creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on, but that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the one hundred other good ideas there are. You have to pick carefully

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

"If it could save a person’s life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year.

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

We limit how much technology our kids use at home

Non passate la vostra vita vivendo quella di qualcun altro. [...] Siate affamati, siate folli. [...] Solo chi è così folle da pensare di cambiare il mondo, alla fine lo cambia veramente.

If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you'll be right.

... you'll know when you find it.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by
dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of
others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.

«Por cierto, ¿qué has creado tú que sea tan genial? ¿Has fabricado algo o te limitas a criticar el trabajo de los demás y a menospreciar sus motivaciones?».

Sometimes, life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

يجب عدم التمييز بين الفن الجميل والتصميم الصناعي التطبيقي ، أن التصميم يجب أن يكون بسيطًا وتكون روحه معبرة أيضًا

My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.