About Steve Jobs

Cofounder of Apple and Pixar who reshaped personal computing, phones and animation. (1955-2011)

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More from Steve Jobs

• Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.Stanford University commencement address (2005)
• The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.Stanford University commencement address (2005)
• You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.Stanford University commencement address (2005)
• Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.Stanford University commencement address (2005)
• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.Stanford University commencement address (2005)
• Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.Interview, The New York Times Magazine (2003)

More quotes on creativity and innovation

• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw
• We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.Kurt Vonnegut
• Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.Ray Bradbury
• We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.Ray Bradbury
• I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.Wayne Gretzky
• Research your own experience; absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is essentially your own.Bruce Lee

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