“One of the great things about Steve Jobs is what comes out of his mouth. The CEO of Apple Computer is a master of hype, hyperbole and the catchy phrase. Even when he’s trying to talk normally, brilliant verbiage comes tumbling out,” Owen Linzmayer writes for Wired News. “Here’s a selection of some of the most insanely great things the man has said, organized by topic: innovation and design, fixing Apple, his greatest sales pitches, life’s lessons, taking the fight to the enemy and Pixar.”
There are too many quotes from which to choose, but one our favorites is included:
It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
Linzmayer’s article is called “Steve Jobs’ Best Quotes Ever,” but there are a lot of great ones missing. You can Google for them (if you aren’t one of Steve Ballmer’s brainwashed children, of course). A few quotes of Jobs’ that aren’t there, but are also favs of ours:
I want to put a ding in the universe.
My girlfriend always laughs during sex – no matter what she’s reading.
The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste… I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third rate products.
Linzmayer’s full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: Please add your favorite all-time Steve Jobs quotes below.
[UPDATE: 1:02: Fixed certain (non-Coors-induced) grammar mishaps.]
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Those of you who have good quotes should post them to Wikiquote:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
That’s apparently where MacDude, above, got all his quotes. WIsh he’d thought to add the link…
Holy…
I think he said ‘Scrolls like butter’.
Would make a good t-shirt slogan than no one understands.
Jobs was accurately, prophetically describing the Bush adminstration by allegory here . . .
“John Sculley ruined Apple and he ruined it by bringing a set of values to the top of Apple which were corrupt and corrupted some of the top people who were there, drove out some of the ones who were not corruptible, and brought in more corrupt ones and paid themselves collectively tens of millions of dollars and cared more about their own glory and wealth than they did about what built Apple in the first place — which was making great computers for people to use.”
bring it on you right wing bastards!
“Where the hell is my chiffon?”
Wait, I don’t think that was Steve…
You might know that some fringe fanatic, be it right- or left-wing, would have to try to turn a nice thread into a political bashing session.
Sometimes I think free speech is overrated.
MW: “support”, as in “When it comes to political posts in this forum, I support moderation.”
Oh, I almost forgot: One more thing.
Real artists shit.
Just because googling it in quotes will return one hit (besides this one, eventually) dudn’t mean he didn’t say it.
Sorry, maczac, missed your earlier quote.
Here’s one more then:
I bet you’re still a virgin.
I think that Steve Jobs is a Libertarian. He seems to believe in highly competitive free markets rather than left wing o right wing ‘government solutions’. Of course, ‘government solutions’ is an oxymoron, but never mind that.
Everyone please not that this quote comes from 1980s (!):
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. – Steve Jobs