Steve Jobs

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." -- Steve Jobs
"I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life." -- Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford University commencement address
“It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy." -- Steve Jobs
"Somebody ought to call Steve Jobs, who doesn't need to be bribed to do innovation, and ask him if he'd like to do national service and run a car company for a year." -- Tom Friedman
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." -- Steve Jobs
"Today happens to be exactly the 200th day since the iPhone went on sale and I'm extraordinarily pleased to report that we have sold 4 million iPhones today." -- Steve Jobs in his keynote speech at Macworld 2008.
"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.' " -- Steve Jobs