Steve Jobs's most famous quotes (and the ones that aren't his)
The top 3 according to 1 vote: Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. · You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. · Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.. (Updated Apr 15, 2022.)
From the 2005 Stanford speech to the 'bicycle for our minds' and 'design is how it works': Steve Jobs's lines with their source, plus the famous ones he borrowed, like 'Stay hungry, stay foolish'.
Automatically translated (original in Português). See the original
Top 14
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Death is very likely the single best invention of Life.
Stanford address, 2005, a year after his cancer diagnosis.
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You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
Stanford commencement address, 12 June 2005.
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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Stanford address, 2005.
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Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
Stanford address, 2005, on being fired from Apple in 1985.
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5
Real artists ship.
Motto during the Macintosh's development, recounted in the book West of Eden.
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It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
At a Macintosh team retreat, September 1982.
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Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
Persuading John Sculley, then president of Pepsi, to join Apple, 1983.
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It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.
Documentary Memory and Imagination, 1991.
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9
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.
The Wall Street Journal, 1993, on Bill Gates's success.
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A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.
BusinessWeek, 25 May 1998.
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It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
The New York Times Magazine, 30 November 2003.
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12
And one more thing…
The phrase he used to announce surprises at the end of his keynotes.
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Stay hungry, stay foolish.
Not his: it comes from the back cover of the Whole Earth Epilog (1974), as he said himself at Stanford.
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Good artists copy; great artists steal.
A line he liked to repeat, crediting Picasso; its origin is uncertain (perhaps T. S. Eliot).
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