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„Microsoft has had two goals. One was to copy the Mac and the other was to copy Lotus’ success in the spreadsheet. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.They were able to copy the Mac because the Mac was frozen in time. The Mac didn’t change much for the last 10 years. It changed maybe 10 percent. It was a sitting duck. It’s amazing that it took Microsoft 10 years to copy something that was a sitting duck. Apple, unfortunately, doesn’t deserve too much sympathy. They invested hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars into R&D, but very little came out They produced almost no new innovation since the original Mac itself.“
„I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and that you couldn’t replace one of these people with 50 average people. They could just do things that no number of average people could do.“
„We hired truly great people and gave them the room to do great work. A lot of companies […] hire people to tell them what to do. We hire people to tell us what to do. We figure we’re paying them all this money; their job is to figure out what to do and tell us.“
„If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.“
„So Mac OS X is cross-platform by design, right from the very beginning. So Mac OS X is singing on Intel processors, and I’d just like to show you right now. As a matter of fact… this system I’ve been using here… Let go have a look… [reveals that the system he had been using for the presentation was running Mac OS X 10.4.1 on a machine using a 3.6 GHz Pentium 4 processor] So.. we’ve been running on an Intel machine all morning.“
„Jobs: Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don’t have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don’t have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.“
„They’re babes in the woods. I think I can help turn Alvy and Ed into businessmen.“
„It will go down in history as a turning point for the music industry. This is landmark stuff. I can’t overestimate it!“
„I am saddened, not by Microsoft’s success — I have no problem with their success. They’ve earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.“
„I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.“
„They are shamelessly copying us.“
„Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could — I’m searching for the right word — could, could die.“
„It looks like it’s from another planet. A good planet. A planet with better designers“
„Why would I ever want to run Disney? Wouldn’t it make more sense just to sell them Pixar and retire?“
„The HD revolution is over, it happened. HD won. Everybody wants HD.“
„If it could save a person’s life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year.“
„I get asked a lot why Apple’s customers are so loyal. It’s not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That’s ridiculous.“
„There are folks here from 48 different countries.“
„Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It’s very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. … Apple’s been very fortunate in that it’s introduced a few of these.“
„I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.“
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