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 thrilled to have concluded the best year in Apple's history. This is the direct result of our focus on innovation and the immense talent and creativity at Apple.
This is the direct result of our focus on innovation and the immense talent and creativity at Apple. We could not be more excited about the new products we're working on for 2006.
None of us are as creative as all of us.
I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o'clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that's why we're called Apple.
I'm one of the few people who understands how producing technology requires intuition and creativity, and how producing something artistic takes real discipline.
The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology
Creativity is just connecting things.
Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions.
Without death there would be very little progress.
Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.
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.
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.