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
We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We're rewriting the history of human thought with what we're doing.
Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. 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.
Life is about creating and living experiences that are worth sharing.
It is not clear that buying songs over the air makes economic sense. I am skeptical because of the cost...but we will see.
People are going to bring them home to work on something Sunday morning, they're not going to be able to get their kids away from them, and maybe someday they may even buy a second one to use at home.
Well, uh, if we knew then I probably shouldn't talk about it,
Over one billion songs have now been legally purchased and downloaded around the globe, representing a major force against music piracy and the future of music distribution as we move from CDs to the Internet.
Our results this quarter reflect the outstanding performance of 'Monsters, Inc.,' ... Which is poised to continue with its domestic home video release next month, and earnings from our growing film library, which continues to outperform our expectations.
Our transition to Intel processors is going very well, and our music business just experienced another quarter of outstanding growth.
Please be a little more patient with us and we'll do these things in the correct order,
I think it will be either a triumphant cap on a successful relationship with Disney or the huge beginning of a bountiful new chapter in our relationship with them,
I'm in love with the new iMac -- it's the finest product Apple has ever created.
Who cares about the Apple II? The Macintosh is the future of Apple, and you're going to start on it now.
We have modified the Mac OS so it can boot over a network. It thinks it's doing it locally, but it's doing it on a server.