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 really buying into Bob's vision, not the other way around.
It's high time we officially recognized it with this promotion,
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Our relationship with Microsoft is kind of like a marriage. It's terrific 99 percent of the time. And one percent of the time we argue, usually over multimedia. And in life, that's not a bad ratio.
Apple had a very decent group of people as their board of directors, but it was time for a change.
Apple grew faster than the industry this quarter for the first time in nearly five years,
You're not going to have to lug around 20 MB of Java 2 on your back to throw into Windows every time you want to run your app. It's going to be there right out of the box on every Mac,
You've given us the time to get this turned around and get the volumes back up, and we deeply appreciate it,
It's impossibly small, ... It's thinner than a No. 2 pencil.
This decision is consistent with our strategy to focus all of our software development resources on extending the Macintosh operating system.
And you guys were putting Java in light bulbs and everything else,
It's a non-issue for us... We sell computers.
I wish him 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.
He is my buddy. I would hate to see what his enemies look like.