the year steve jobs was born

a loser?

nostalgia

 

contemporary minimalists

dent

“I want to put a ding in the universe.”

– Steve Jobs [1955 - 2011]

on leadership

kaleidoscopic imagination

"An inventor needs an enemy."
- Thomas Edison on Alexander Graham Bell; the importance of competition.

Nut Jobs

Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels. The trouble makers, the round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

They’re not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them … because they change things, they push the human race forward.

While some may see them as “the crazy ones”, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world – are the ones who do.

- Steve Jobs

Greatest accomplishment?

"The team."
- Steve Jobs

paraphrase

"A buyer doesn't know what they want until you show it to them."
- Steve Jobs

never make the first move

A strategy embraced by FDR and Steve Jobs.

on going second

"Don't ever be the first person to try anything."
- David Bowie as recalled by Gwyneth Paltrow

sui generis

"We're not about 'First' we're about 'Best.'
- Tim Cook

swinging big

"The world does not care how many times you fall down, just as long as it's one fewer than the times you get up."
- Aaron Sorkin

"If you're not making mistakes you're not trying."
- Tim Cook, Apple CEO

"The mind knows not what the tongue wants. 'It's a mystery! And a critically important step in understanding our own desires and tastes is to realize that we cannot always explain what we want deep down.'"
- Dr. Howard Moskowitz cited by Malcolm Gladwell

"I thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I like electronics. Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who can stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that’s what I wanted to do. "
- Steve Jobs

"We don't do market research. We tell them what they want."
- Steve Jobs

poke

"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact and that is: everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you ... The minute that you understand that that you can poke life and that something will, if you push in, something will actually pop out the other side ... that you can change it; you can mould it ... that's maybe the most important thing."
- Steve Jobs