Quotes from Steve Jobs

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

And one more thing.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology

What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.

You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to sell it.

I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod.

We limit how much technology our kids use at home.

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet - and no one's gonna shut down the Internet.

Music companies are not technology companies any more than technology companies are music companies. They're really different from each other.

It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.

Technology alone is not enough.

I'm one of the few people who understands how producing technology requires intuition and creativity, and how producing something artistic takes real discipline.

The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both.

The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well.

The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

The most precious resource we have is time.

A lot of time, people don't do great things becoz' great things really aren't expected of them.