Mac OS X Tiger will come out long before Longhorn.
We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.
Let them know precisely what you are going to do with their data.
I think Pixar has the opportunity to be the next Disney – not replace Disney – but be the next Disney.
Why would I ever want to run Disney? Wouldn’t it make more sense just to sell them Pixar and retire?
What’s new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet – and no one’s gonna shut down the Internet.
Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Without death there would be very little progress.
I just had a romance that I really care about, a lot-I mean, a lot-go up in smoke. Because of the stress, and the sort of other woman that Macintosh is.
Make it like a sunflower.
Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions.
I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It’s very character-building.
It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.
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.
Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.
We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That’s what’s driven me.
But it’s a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light – that it’s going to change everything. Things don’t have to change the world to be important.
Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It’s very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. Apple’s been very fortunate in that it’s introduced a few of these.
The world doesn’t need another Dell or Compaq.