Steve Job's best quotes

I won't quibble, I don't have an independent source for Steve quotes.

These were my favorites:
On His Competitors

Playboy: Are you saying that the people who made PCjr don’t have that kind of pride in the product?

“If they did, they wouldn’t have made the PCjr.” [Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985]


This is also a political lesson:
“When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.” [Wired, February 1996]

And, as the author labels it, One More Thing:
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. 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.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t 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.” [Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]

June 18, 1978

The groom and his maternal grandmother. Almost certainly at the bride's parent's house, where the wedding took place.

This grandmother and the bride's maternal grandmother coincidentally took the same flight to Sacramento. When the crew learned of the coincidence the pilot made an announcement and the plane's passengers cheered. At least, that's how we remember it.

1978 (again)

Thanks to BAG for pointing out that my SSN number was on the card… That's right kids, in 19778, your SSN was your school i.d.

They don't do that anymore. Plus, we have the internet.