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
Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.
The journey is the reward
Follow your heart, but check it with your head.
The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products.
This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous.
Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.
You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.
Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.
The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.
It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.
You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.
My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.