Steve Jobs / Walter Isaacson

• The creativity that can occur when a feel for both humanities & the sciences combine in on strong personality
• He who is abandoned is an abandoner.
• Different religions are different doors to the same house.
• Figure out how to make it user-friendly, put it together in a package, market it, & make a few bucks.
• Consciously positioning himself at the intersection of the arts and technology
• If he’s decided that something should happen, then he is just going to make it happen.
• People do judge a book by its cover
• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
• Picasso had a saying, good artists copy, great artists steal.
• WYSIWYG -What you see is what you get.
• An Icon is a symbol equally incomprehensible in all human languages. There is a reason why humans invented phonetic languages.
• Make a dent in the universe
• You did the impossible, because you didn’t realize it was impossible.
• Simplicity it the ultimate sophistication.
• It’s better to be a pirate then to join the navy.
• Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?
• Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?
• What I’m best at doing is finding a group of talented people and making thing with them.
• The honeymoon is over
• The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
• Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.
• For minimalism of design, It involves digging through the de8pth of the complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. You have to deeply understand the essence of a product, in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.
• Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of think you have something to lose.
• Ability to focus, set priorities, filter our distractions.
• Some leader push innovations by being good at the big picture. Other do so by mastering details.
• If you’re not busy being born, you’re busy dying. Dylon