Quotes About Change

You Say You Want a Revolution: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Phil Schiller, Tim Cook, Jony Ive, Tony Fadell, Paul Otellini. All Things

Tribble recalled that he adopted the phrase from the "Menagerie" episodes of Star Trek, "in which the aliens create their own new world through sheer mental force." He meant the phrase to be a compliment as well as a caution: "It was dangerous to get caught in Steve's distortion field, but it was what led him to actually be able to change reality.

For a scientist, altering your doctrines when the facts change is not a sign of weakness.

The computer will never be as important to society as the copier."73

Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life."27

the importance of spawning new

Taylor recalled that he ran into a brick wall every time he tried to deal with the suits back east. As the head of a Xerox research facility in Webster, New York, explained to him, "The computer will never be as important to society as the copier."73

that the sodas in the office refrigerator be replaced by Odwalla organic orange and carrot juices, someone on the team had T-shirts made. "Reality Distortion

I wanted to throw caution and logic to the wind and join Apple

I can't see any reason that anyone would want a computer of his own," DEC president Ken Olsen declared at a May 1974 meeting

The idealistic wind of the sixties is still at our backs, though, and most of the people I know who are my age have that ingrained in them forever.

Computer innovators, like other pioneers, can find themselves left behind if they get stuck in their ways.

Hertzfeld explained that he needed to get his Apple II DOS program in good enough shape to hand it over to someone. "You're just wasting your time with that!" Jobs replied. "Who cares about the Apple II? The Apple II will be dead in a few years. The Macintosh is the future of Apple, and you're going to start on it now!" With that, Jobs yanked out the power cord to Hertzfeld's Apple II, causing the code he was working on to vanish.

Henry V—the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a passionate but sensitive, callous but

The same traits that make them inventive, such as stubbornness and focus, can make them resistant to change when new ideas come along.

create a new standard takes not just making something that's a little bit different, it takes something that's really new and captures people's imagination.

focused, yet he dazzled and baffled colleagues by suddenly changing his mind when he realized he needed to think different.

It was the fact that he and his friends had a car, unlike the group she had originally planned to go out with that evening.

You're better off to go out and start your own company and fail than it is to stick at one company for thirty years.

Embrace uncertainty," the ads read.

Jobs also decided to eliminate the cursor arrow keys on the Macintosh keyboard. The only way to move the cursor was to use the mouse. It was a way of forcing old-fashioned users to adapt to point-and-click navigation, even if they didn't want to. Unlike other product developers, Jobs did not believe the customer was always right; if they wanted to resist using a mouse, they were wrong.

By the summer of 1996 Amelio realized that he had a serious problem.

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

Stop the train, this isn't going to work," he told Woolard. "This company is in shambles, and I don't have time to wet-nurse the board. So I need all of you to resign. Or else I'm going to resign and not come back on Monday.