Steve Jobs Quotes: Design, Innovation, and Dissing Microsoft

Steve Jobs in His Own Words

Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple and Pixar, passed away on October 5, 2011. His legacy is a radically altered tech landscape that has brought in countless people that otherwise describe themselves as "non-geeky" or "computer illiterate". Even besides Steve Jobs' Stanford commencement speech, he had quite a few bons mots.

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In describing his vision of technology and design, Steve Jobs was very quotable, so we're going to do just that.

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Popular Steve Jobs Quotes

• “I want to put a ding in the universe.”
• “We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.”
• “Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”
• "The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked."
• “I think[technology has]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.”
• 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.
• "I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building."
• "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste."
• "Everyone wants a MacBook Pro because they are so bitchin'."