Steve Jobs had very strong feelings about what makes a company great, what makes products great. He more or less chose Tim Cook to be in that role, in that position.
STEVE WOZNIAKPredictions can sound really good if you’re good with words and can express them eloquently and give people ideas and inspiration in their head. But I’m not really good at that, so I don’t want to.
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Back in high school I told my dad, “I’m going to have a computer someday.” And he said that it cost as much as a house-the downpayment on a house. And I said, “Well, I’ll live in an apartment.”
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I just was non-political and didn’t see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision, you know, and tell them how lousy their work was.
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Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.
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I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.
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The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn’t thought of before and that aren’t talked about in the news all the time.
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Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.
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A lot of things seem to be worth almost no money. but if you do them very well, and they help people fill a need, there’s a great business you can build around that.
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All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.
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I absolutely do not need a salary or a job, that’s the last thing I need.
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Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.
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My primary phone is the iPhone. I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.
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I just believe in whatever you’re going to do, even if it’s work, have a little bit of fun attitude about it. You can be happy.
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Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it have a computer in it.
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You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you’ve heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.
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I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.
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When you stop and think about it, a smartphone is basically a whistle you can carry.
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My goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
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I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap.
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I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way
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I really believe I know why my designs were better than any other human being, but I don’t want to take credit for starting Apple, for turning the world around or anything like that.
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You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that’s one of the biggest honors of my life.
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My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
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I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.
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Not everything in life can go perfectly according to plan. I mean I didn’t keep every girlfriend I ever had.
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Neither one of us could be sure we’d get our money back on this investment, but we just wanted to have company of our own for once because we were best friends.
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You’d better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you’ll end up owning so few of those ideas.
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