Quotes from Steve Jobs

LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.

I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.

Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

We're not going to be the first to this party, but we're going to be the best.

Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste.

Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.

I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.

The problem with the Internet startup craze isn't that too many people are starting companies; it's that too many people aren't sticking with it.

God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone's heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.... Don't settle

I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.

It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

We've got to make the small things unforgettable.