Steve Jobs Quotes About Technology
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I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.
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digital hub (center of our universe) is moving from PC to cloud - PC now just another client alongside iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, ... - Apple is in danger of hanging on to old paradigm too long (innovator's dilemma) - Google and Microsoft are further along on the technology, but haven't quite figured it out yet - tie all of our products together, so we further lock customers into our ecosystem
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The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.
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What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet - and no one's gonna shut down the Internet.
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Technology alone is not enough.
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But it's a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light - that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important.
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The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.
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So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'
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You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
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The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products.
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We limit how much technology our kids use at home.
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I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.
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With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.
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I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod.
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I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.
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It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.
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I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.
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The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.
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The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both.
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You‘ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the other way around.
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Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.
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Music companies are not technology companies any more than technology companies are music companies. They're really different from each other.
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The technology companies don't understand creative things at all. Silicon Valley's view of the creative process in Hollywood is a bunch of guys in their young thirties sitting on a couch, drinking beer, and thinking up jokes.
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We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream.
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The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well.
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It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.
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It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.
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The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology
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What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.
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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
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