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Steve Jobs' Best Quotes Ever
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Mar 29, 2006, 10:43 AM
 
"Why would I ever want to run Disney? Wouldn't it make more sense just to sell them Pixar and retire?"
-- Fortune, Feb. 23, 2004


http://www.wired.com/news/culture/mac/0,70512-0.html

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Mar 29, 2006, 11:24 AM
 
Hmm, that link is having a rough time loading for me.

Anyways, one of my Jobs favorites is,

"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugar water, or do you want to change the world?" --Jobs speaking to John Sculley (head of Pepsi at the time) trying to get him to come to Apple
     
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Mar 29, 2006, 11:43 AM
 
"The dollar still sucks."
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Mar 29, 2006, 11:49 AM
 
And this is a good one I'd never heard before:

"The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful."
-- Rolling Stone, Dec. 3, 2003
     
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Mar 29, 2006, 12:26 PM
 
Originally Posted by ::maroma::
Anyways, one of my Jobs favorites is,

"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugar water, or do you want to change the world?" --Jobs speaking to John Sculley (head of Pepsi at the time) trying to get him to come to Apple
THat was one of the dumbest things Jobs and Apple have ever done.
It almost killed Apple.

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Mar 29, 2006, 01:03 PM
 
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

I like it

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Mar 29, 2006, 01:10 PM
 
"F*cking Eric Schmidt is a f*cking pussy. I'm going to f*cking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f*cking kill Google."

Oops, wrong Steve.
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Mar 29, 2006, 01:11 PM
 
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Mar 29, 2006, 01:22 PM
 
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Mar 29, 2006, 01:29 PM
 
"If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own."
     
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Mar 29, 2006, 02:05 PM
 
Don't forget the holy mother of all Steve's quotes…



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Mar 29, 2006, 02:06 PM
 
Originally Posted by angelmb
Don't forget the holy mother of all Steve's quotes… One more thing !!
I thought that was Columbo.
     
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Mar 29, 2006, 02:12 PM
 
Yeah that was my favorite too.
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Mar 29, 2006, 02:22 PM
 
How about all his "Intel sucks" mumbo jumbo from anytime before a year ago.

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Mar 29, 2006, 02:27 PM
 
Originally Posted by Weyland-Yutani
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

I like it

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Mar 29, 2006, 02:51 PM
 
"Now what about the future..."
     
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Mar 29, 2006, 03:14 PM
 
"If I were the head of Apple, I would milk the Mac for all its worth and then move on to the next big thing."
     
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Mar 29, 2006, 07:42 PM
 
Originally Posted by angelmb
Don't forget the holy mother of all Steve's quotes…


     
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Mar 29, 2006, 07:55 PM
 
none of you put in the most interesting quote

"If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth -- and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago."
-- Fortune, Feb. 19, 1996
     
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Mar 29, 2006, 10:27 PM
 
"Boom."
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Mar 30, 2006, 10:22 AM
 
"Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will
disappear in two years. He got it half-right." - Dennis Ritchie

"XWindows is brain-damaged and won't be around long." -Steve Jobs ( http://www.mactech.com/articles/mact...grammingIntro/ )

"Steve Jobs is half right." -Bill Joy

(note if you will http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/ )
     
   
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