Quotes About Impact

I keep thinking about all the time away from my family this will cause, and the time away from the other family at Pixar," Jobs said. "But the only reason I want to do it is that the world will be a better place with Apple in it.

When we ascribe credit for an invention, determining who should be most noted by history, one criterion is looking at whose contributions turned out to have the most influence.

En palabras de George Dyson: «El computador de programa almacenado, tal y como lo imaginó Alan Turing y lo plasmó John von Neumann, diluyó la distinción entre números que significan cosas y números que hacen cosas. Nuestro universo nunca volvería a ser el mismo».

Throughout human history, we have been subjected to wave after wave of viral and bacterial plagues. The first known one was the Babylon flu epidemic around 1200 BC. The plague of Athens in 429 BC killed close to 100,000 people, the Antonine plague in the second century killed ten million, the plague of Justinian in the sixth century killed fifty million, and the Black Death of the fourteenth century took almost 200 million lives, close to half of Europe's population.

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.

It was then I realized that I do give a shit about Apple—I started it and it is a good thing to have in the world.

Invention implies contributing something to the flow of history and affecting how an innovation developed.

When they saw what Jobs and Johnson had built, they unanimously approved going ahead. It would, the board agreed, take the relationship between retailing and brand image to a new level.

But what truly devastated Jobs was that he was not, after all, chosen as the Man of the Year.

Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.

Thomas Carlyle afirmaba que «la historia del mundo no es sino la biografía de grandes hombres»

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?

Las personas lo suficientemente locas como para pensar que pueden cambiar el mundo son las que lo cambian. (Anuncio Piensa diferente de Apple, 1997)

Raskin died of pancreatic cancer in 2005, not long after Jobs was diagnosed with the disease.

It made me cringe, but dammit, it got things done.

the biggest way to deliver an effect to the world is not by writing a paper but by taking technology you believe in and making something of it.

people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones

There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.

think they can change the world are the ones who do. —Apple's "Think

atomic power, radar, and the Internet—were spawned by the military.

His personality was reflected in the products he created.

Aquello reforzó mi convicción de lo que era realmente importante: grandes creaciones en lugar de ganar dinero, devolver tantas cosas al curso de la historia y de la conciencia humana como me fuera posible».

had just fired somebody that day, and I imagined what it was like for that person to tell his family