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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. 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.

— Steve Jobs Address at Stanford University (2005)

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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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