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

• If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.Toni Morrison
• One withstands the invasion of armies; one does not withstand the invasion of ideas.Victor Hugo
• Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'George Bernard Shaw
• 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

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