"Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better." - Steve Jobs
Source: Interview in Rolling Stone magazine, no. 684, (16 June 1994)
"I was worth about over a million dollars when I was twenty-three and over ten million dollars when I was twenty-four, and over a hundred million dollars when I was twenty-five and it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money." - Steve Jobs
PBS documentary Triumph of the Nerds (1996)
"The trouble with Microsoft is they have no taste. They have no taste and I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way." - Steve Jobs
PBS documentary Triumph of the Nerds (1996)
"I wish him [Bill Gates] the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger." - Steve Jobs
Interview, New York Times (1997)
"It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led and how much you get it." - Steve Jobs
Time, Digital 50 - Steve Jobs #8 ("best line")
"When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It's the truth." - Steve Jobs
Wired (April 2002)
"We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on." - Steve Jobs
Interview with Steve Jobs in Macworld magazine, (February 2004)
"If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years." - Steve Jobs
Source: The Journey is the Reward by Jeffrey S. Young (Pg 235)
"Mac OS X Tiger will come out long before Longhorn." - Steve Jobs
Pronounced: Mac Oh Esss Ten
Source: MWSF Keynote (2005-01)
"If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." - Steve Jobs
From his speech at Stanford University during graduation in the spring of 2005
"To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines." - Steve Jobs
"A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets." - Steve Jobs
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About the author: Steven Paul Jobs, born February 24, 1955, is the CEO of Apple Computer and a leading figure in the computer industry. As co-founder (with Steve Wozniak) of Apple in 1976, he helped popularize the concept of the home computer with the Apple II. Later, he was one of the first to see the commercial potential of the GUI and mouse developed at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, and saw that these technologies were incorporated into the Apple Macintosh. Jobs is also the former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios, a leading producer of computer-animated feature films.
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"We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream". -- Interview about the release of the Macintosh (24 January 1984)
