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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
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. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
As always, I'd like to thank everyone's families because they support us and let us do what we love to do.
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental &##&$. These things can profoundly influence life.
The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, because it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me.
Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.
Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown your own inner voice.
It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.
The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That’s a very big thing in a desktop world.
I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.