Don’t become a slave to technology – manage your phone, don’t let it manage you.
You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday’s impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.
Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.
I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.
Technology alone is not enough.
Computers are like a bicycle for our minds.
We’ve gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.
Let’s go invent tomorrow!
You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to sell it.
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 best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology.
Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It’s a complete illusion to associate it with low levels of technology. It is probably, in fact, a form of social organization second only to the family in its ability to endure.
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don’t quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.
The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we’re compelled to face.
But there’s still so much you can do with technology to improve the customer experience. And that’s the sense in which I believe it’s still Day One, and that it’s early in the day. If anything, the rate of change is accelerating.
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.
Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.
Technology is society made durable.