15 Best Steve Jobs Quotes

(From thedailybeast.com) The Apple visionary inspired a whole generation with his words. From his iconic Stanford University address to some choice words about competitor Bill Gates, read some of Jobs’s famous statements. On His First Computer; “A neighbor down the block named Larry Lang was an engineer at Hewlett-Packard. He spent a lot of time with me, teaching me stuff. The first computer I ever saw was at Hewlett-Packard. They used to invite maybe 10 of us down every Tuesday night and give us lectures and let us work with a computer. I was maybe 12 the first time. I remember the night. They showed us one of their new desktop computers and let us play on it. I wanted one badly.”—Playboy interview, 1985

On Computers:

“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.”—Playboy interview, 1985

On Design:

“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?”—Pitch to John Sculley to join Apple, 1985

“A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”—BusinessWeek, 1998

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