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AKA: | Steven Paul Jobs |
Birthday: | February 24, 1955 |
Birthplace: | San Francisco, California, United States |
Death: | October 5, 2011 |
Educated At: | Reed College, Homestead High School |
Lifestyle: | Vegetarian |
Manner of Death: | Natural Causes |
Nationality: | American, United States Of America |
Occupations: | Entrepreneur, Inventor, Designer, Engineer, Computer Scientist |
Religion: | Buddhism, Zen |
Spouse: | Laurene Powell Jobs |
Total quotes: 30

Steve Jobs
BirthnameAKA: Steven Paul Jobs
Birthday: February 24, 1955
Birthplace: San Francisco, California, United States
Death: October 5, 2011
Educated At: Reed College, Homestead High School
Lifestyle: Vegetarian
Manner of Death: Natural Causes
Nationality: American, United States Of America
Occupations: Entrepreneur, Inventor, Designer, Engineer, Computer Scientist
Religion: Buddhism, Zen
Spouse: Laurene Powell Jobs
Total quotes: 30
“We all know this is the one screen we want to do. So let's make it work.”
Tagged:
Reality Distortion
“You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.”
Tagged:
User Experience, Product Design
“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
Tagged:
Craftmanship
“And the problem with that is that there’s just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product. And as you evolve that great idea, it changes and grows.
It never comes out like it starts because you learn a lot more as you get into the subtleties of it. And you also find there are tremendous tradeoffs that you have to make.
There are just certain things you can’t make electrons do. There are certain things you can’t make plastic do. Or glass do. Or factories do. Or robots do.”
It never comes out like it starts because you learn a lot more as you get into the subtleties of it. And you also find there are tremendous tradeoffs that you have to make.
There are just certain things you can’t make electrons do. There are certain things you can’t make plastic do. Or glass do. Or factories do. Or robots do.”
Tagged:
Products Grow, Change
“When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money.
That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people use. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.
And the minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know if you push in, something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing. It's to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.
I think that's very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you'll want to change life and make it better, cause it's kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.”
That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people use. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.
And the minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know if you push in, something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing. It's to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.
I think that's very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you'll want to change life and make it better, cause it's kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.”
Tagged:
Reality Distortion
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