Steve Jobs Quotes 5

On Technology

It takes these very simple-minded instructions—‘Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number’––but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic. [Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985]

Things don’t have to change the world to be important. [Wired, February 1996]

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television — but then again, television, at its best, is magnificent. [Rolling Stone, Dec. 3, 2003]

On His Products

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore. When we finally presented it at the shareholders’ meeting, everyone in the auditorium gave it a five-minute ovation. What was incredible to me was that I could see the Mac team in the first few rows. It was as though none of us could believe we’d actually finished it. Everyone started crying. [Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985]

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them. [On Mac OS X, Fortune, Jan. 24, 2000]

It will go down in history as a turning point for the music industry. This is landmark stuff. I can’t overestimate it! [On the iTunes Music Store, Fortune, May 12, 2003]

Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. One is very fortunate if you get to work on just one of these in your career. Apple’s been very fortunate it’s been able to introduce a few of these into the world. [Announcement of the iPhone, Jan. 9, 2007]



from Wall Street Journal, 8/24/2011