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Steve Jobs Quotes

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

Steve Jobs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011

Topics

Apple Know Nap Introduction Company

The novelist in me is probably hiding behind all the stories I write, looking for ways to connect them and continue the conversation with readers. Maybe I'm writing one long narrative, and each book, however different from the last, is just a chapter.

Joanna Scott

Me Writing Looking Book Long Write

I was very inspired by the videos of the crowds at the Palin rallies.

Jill Sobule

Inspired Videos Crowds Very Rallies

You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out.

Andrew Motion

You Now Places Inside See Out

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Robert Orben

Work Morning People America Look Go

I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.

Ann Richards

Think Days Well Administration Very

What's encouraging is that the early new platforms - Kindle and iPad - are clearly leading to people buying more books. The data is in on that.

Steven Johnson

People Data Early New More Clearly

Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.

Strom Thurmond

Mind Better Doubt Segregation Open

I was showing up at the studio all the time with no bag, being like, 'I don't want to have a backpack. I've had backpacks my whole life, and I'm a grown man now. I should have something better.'

Mike D

Life Time Man Better Bag Showing Up

What we can do is to explain as clearly as possible what the benefits would be of him going down one path, and what the potential consequences would be if he chooses another path.

Mitchell Reiss

Path Potential Consequences Down Him

I had a very strong 'revertigo' for becoming the kid that I was when I was in Dinosaur Jr. That's a pretty insecure place that I was in.

Lou Barlow

Strong Place Kid Dinosaur Pretty

One of the main dilemmas that's pretty common to a lot of people who are getting older is the idea that maybe there's a finish line and that maybe there's a time in your life when you start to slow down and stop and smell the roses and just kind of settle into what will be a comfortable period in your life.

Chris Cornell

Life Time Getting Older People Start

You can fake a lot in a startup these days, what with Amazon Web Services and all sorts of off-the-shelf back-end components that let any even minimally competent duffer set up a Web app that does something. Intelligent planning for growth is rare among early startups, but it's the name of the game at a large, rapidly scaling tech company.

Antonio Garcia Martinez

Growth Game Planning Name Fake You