Steve Jobs Quotes About Technology

Quotes about: Technology

• What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Memorable, Technology

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.86, Prabhat Prakashan

• We limit how much technology our kids use at home.

  Steve Jobs

  Home, Kids, Technology

  "Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent" by Nick Bilton, www.nytimes.com. September 10, 2014.

• I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

  Steve Jobs

  Children, Sorry, Technology

  "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

• Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Business, Work

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

• I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Change, Success

  "Core Values: Apple Founder Steve Jobs". Interview with Brian Williams, www.nbclearn.com. May 25, 2006.

• I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Technology, Wanted

  "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Educational

  "The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award". Inc. Magazine, April 1, 1989.

• I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Education, Technology

  Newsweek magazine, October 29, 2001.

• Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.

  Steve Jobs

  Technology, Apples, Creative

  Fortune, February 21, 2005.

• It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

  Steve Jobs

  Education, Art, Technology

  "Without Jobs as CEO, Who Speaks for the Arts at Apple?" by Tim Carmody, www.wired.com. August 29, 2011.

• It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Technology, Best Job

  "Steve Jobs: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 25, 1998.

• Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

  Steve Jobs

  Smart, Technology, People

  "Steve Jobs in 1994: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. January 17, 2011.

• I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Technology, Innovation

  "Steve Jobs’s Dying Realization About Biology and Technology" by Luke Timmerman, www.xconomy.com. December 5, 2011.

• My kids accuse me and my wife of being fascists and overly concerned about tech, and they say that none of their friends have the same rules... That's because we have seen the dangers of technology firsthand. I've seen it in myself, I don't want to see that happen to my kids.

  Steve Jobs

  Kids, Technology, Wife

• What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

  Steve Jobs

  Science, Technology, Mind

  YouTube Channel "Michael Lawrence"/"Steve Jobs, "Computers are like a bicycle for our minds." - Michael Lawrence Films", www.youtube.com. June 01, 2006.

• These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.

  Steve Jobs

  Children, Technology, Birth Defects

• To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Business, Technology

  "Speaking Out: Apple's and Pixar's Steve Jobs". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

• An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

  Steve Jobs

  Technology, Iphone, Phones

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.51, Prabhat Prakashan

• The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

  Steve Jobs

  Black And White, Technology, Color

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.82, Prabhat Prakashan

• The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology

  Steve Jobs

  Creativity, Technology, Way

• We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.87, Prabhat Prakashan

• The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't.

  Steve Jobs

  Technology, Years, World

  "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview With Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

• It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.

  Steve Jobs

  Technology, Innovation, Microsoft

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.47, Prabhat Prakashan

• It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Technology, People

  Rolling Stone magazine Interview, no. 684, June 16, 1994.

• So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Silly, Technology

  "The Future of Computing Power (Fast, Cheap, and Invisible)" by Michio Kaku, bigthink.com.

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