Steve Jobs Quotes About Computers

Quotes about: Computers

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

• What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Memorable, Technology

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.86, Prabhat Prakashan

• Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

  Steve Jobs

  Way, Computer, Software

• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

• Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.

  Steve Jobs

  Country, Thinking, Computer

  "Why learning to code should be on your list of New Year's resolutions" by Mark Armao, www.today.com. January 1, 2016.

• You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Brain, Want

• I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Creating Things, Years

  "Steve Jobs obituary" by Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2011.

• Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

  Steve Jobs

  Philosophical, Artist, Best Job

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.25, Prabhat Prakashan

• The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

  Steve Jobs

  Communication, Home, Compelling Reason

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

• What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

  Steve Jobs

  Science, Technology, Mind

  YouTube Channel "Michael Lawrence"/"Steve Jobs, "Computers are like a bicycle for our minds." - Michael Lawrence Films", www.youtube.com. June 01, 2006.

• The difference between the best worker on computer hardware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you're lucky. With automobiles, maybe 2 to 1. But in software, it's at least 25 to 1. The difference between the average programmer and a great one is at least that. The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world. And when you're in a field where the dynamic range is 25 to 1, boy, does it pay off.

  Steve Jobs

  Boys, Differences, Average

• You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

  Steve Jobs

  Perfection, Agents, Next

• I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

  Steve Jobs

  Best Friend, Good Friend, Together

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, genius.com. February 1, 1985.

• Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Memorable, Thinking

  "The Television Program Transcripts: Part III". www.pbs.org.

• It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

  Steve Jobs

  Years, Three, Want

  "The Entrepreneur of the Decade". Interview with Bo Burlingham, George Gendron, www.inc.com. April 1, 1989.

• This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

  Steve Jobs

  Educational, Mean, Sweat

• We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

  Steve Jobs

  Able, Facts, Action

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.33, Prabhat Prakashan

• If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.

  Steve Jobs

  Mistake, Dark, Winning

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.47, Prabhat Prakashan

• It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.

  Steve Jobs

  Technology, Innovation, Microsoft

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.47, Prabhat Prakashan

• Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Beautiful, Country

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

• I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o'clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that's why we're called Apple.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Creativity, Garbage Cans

• We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are basically tool users. So if we can just get lots of computers to lots of people, it will make some qualitative difference to the world.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Differences, People

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

• I try to get people to see what I have. . . . When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams.

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Dream, People

• Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

  Steve Jobs

  Creativity, Men, Color

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.48, Prabhat Prakashan

• This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Years, Intellectual

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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