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I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building.

— Steve Jobs Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company (2004)

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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.

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