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1955–2011 United States
Steven Paul Jobs (24 February 1955 – 5 October 2011) was the Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc., a company he founded with Steve Wozniak in 1976. He was also the CEO of Pixar Animation Studios until it was acquired by the Walt Disney Company in 2006.
United States Businesspeople Also known as: Jobs, Steve, Steven Jobs, Steven Paul Jobs
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We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on.
I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.
I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.
Woz and I very much liked Bob Dylan's poetry, and we spent a lot of time thinking about a lot of that stuff.
We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
Triumph of the Nerds (1996)
It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
We used to dream about this stuff. Now we get to build it. It's pretty great.
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
"You‘ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology."
When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down.
We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash.
Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.
It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell!
California has a sense of experimentation and a sense of openness—openness to new possibilities.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
Address at Stanford University (2005)
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
The art of those commercials is not to be mean, but it is actually for the guys to like each other.
We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream.
It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans.
<!-- Playboy: Then for now, aren't you asking home-computer buyers to invest $3000 in what is essentially an act of faith?
Playboy interview (1985)
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