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" I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous. "
Steve Jobs
Apple
Why
Ridiculous
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" We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future. "
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" As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids. "
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World
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" For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through. "
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Night
Sleep
You
" I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better. "
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Fun
Having Fun
Trying
" Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus. "
Steve Jobs
Lose
Nobody
Who
" I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals. "
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Some
Intelligence
Smart
" Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost. "
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Lost
Goals
Copy
" I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all. "
Steve Jobs
Sorry
Live
Technology
" I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together. "
Steve Jobs
Humor
Computers
Friend
" 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. "
Steve Jobs
Best
World
Together
" Apple took the edge off the word 'computer.' "
Steve Jobs
Computer
Word
Took
" Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest. "
Steve Jobs
Best
Devices
Goal
" Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields. "
Steve Jobs
People
Science
Great
" Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes? "
Steve Jobs
Mercedes
Apple
Bigger
" Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. "
Steve Jobs
Feels
Just
Looks
" It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor. "
Steve Jobs
Stores
Music
Online
" No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because 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. "
Steve Jobs
Death
People
Change
" If you're gonna make connections which are innovative... you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does. "
Steve Jobs
Everyone
Bag
You
" But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business. "
Steve Jobs
Think
Reality
Apple
" When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. "
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Think
Dumb
Look
" But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem. "
Steve Jobs
New
Night
Innovation
" The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long. "
Steve Jobs
Long
You
World
" My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college. "
Steve Jobs
School
Father
Mother
" Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it's not only easier to use but more efficient. "
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More
Know
Done
" What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done. "
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Change The World
Job
Change
" Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes. "
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Apple
Human
Problems
" You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent. "
Steve Jobs
Perfection
Guide
Going
" 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. "
Steve Jobs
Think
End
Experience
" I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. "
Steve Jobs
Apple
Life
Loved
" It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now. "
Steve Jobs
Now
Happy
Build