Steve Jobs

The technology companies don’t understand creative things at all. Silicon Valley’s view of the creative process in Hollywood is a bunch of guys in their young thirties sitting on a couch, drinking beer, and thinking up jokes.

Steve Jobs

The thing that bound us together at Apple was the ability to make things that were going to change the world. That was very important.

Steve Jobs

The things I’ve done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off.

Steve Jobs

The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it’s not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can’t teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It’s terrible.

Steve Jobs

The web is just going to be one more of those major change factors that businesses face every decade.

Steve Jobs

There are sneakers that cost more than an iPod.

Steve Jobs

There will always be music on the Internet that people can steal. What’s new is not theft. What’s new is a distribution channel for stolen property called the Internet. So there will always be illegal music on the Internet.

Steve Jobs

This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that’s what I had.

Steve Jobs

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‘Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.’ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

Steve Jobs

To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.

Steve Jobs