Quotes from Steve Jobs

Don't be afraid, you can do it.

If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever yo'uve done and whoever you were and throw them away.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something -- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life. Dont be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other peoples thinking. Dont let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

I sat in a garage and invented the future.

Let's go invent tomorrow...

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

I'm not worried about the country's long-term future. This country is insanely great. What I'm worried about is that we don't talk enough about solutions.

If you are working on something that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.

My girlfriend always laughs during sex -- no matter what she's reading.