Quotes by Steve Jobs

“My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what shes reading.”

“You cant just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, theyll want something new.”

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

“Heres to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- theyre not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you cant do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

“I was lucky -- I found what I love to do early in life,”

“Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”

“In most peoples vocabularies, design means veneer. Its interior decorating. Its the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.”

“To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.”

“I want to put a ding in the universe.”

Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life. Dont be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other peoples thinking. Dont let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice., 2005]

If you live each day as it was your last, someday youll most certainly be right

I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today? And whenever the answer has been No for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

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

Dont be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other peoples thinking.

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.... Dont settle

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

One more thing...