Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobswas an American information technology entrepreneur and inventor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officerof Apple Inc.; CEO and majority shareholder of Pixar Animation Studios; a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT Inc. Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Shortly after his death, Jobs's...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth24 February 1955
CountryUnited States of America
This is a very noisy world, so we have to be very clear what we want them to know about us
Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.
The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.
For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.
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.
Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.
Customers don't measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.
Follow your heart, but check it with your head.
I've got to tell you, the Internet is a place you go when you want to turn your brain on, and television is a place you go when you want to turn your brain off. I'm not at all convinced that the twain will meet.
Life can be much broader. You can embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.
I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success — I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.
It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.
You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up.