It made it clear to me that Gates was not the kind of person that would understand or appreciate the elegance of a Macintosh.
Raskin died of pancreatic cancer in 2005, not long after Jobs was diagnosed with the disease.
Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.
I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.
It’s about doing something larger than yourself. It’s about serving this world, helping others.
If you act like you can do something, then it will work.
What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft. They’re causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.
Picasso had a saying – ‘good artists copy, great artists steal’ – and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
I think that notion of being a seeker, somebody who never felt totally fulfilled, but was always passionate about the search, that comes from the background, probably.
Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it’s the reward for being a seeker in this world.
I think when you’re looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You’re not just bringing people on so you can beat them up or, you know, make fools out of them or something.
When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
What Einstein was able to do was – to use a cliche – think out of the box.
I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.
I’ve asked Jobs why he didn’t get an operation then and he said, ‘I didn’t want my body to be opened. I didn’t want to be violated in that way.’
Jobs did not know that Sculley had told Eisenstat he wanted to quit, but by then it didn’t matter. Overnight, he had changed his mind and decided to stay. Despite the blowup the day before, he was still eager for Jobs to like him. So he agreed to meet the next afternoon.
If you truly have a passion for what you do, you will care even about the parts unseen.
I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.
You know, one of these things that happened in the ’60s and ’70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.