Revolutionary Quotes

“When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don't really understand the complexity of the problem. Then you get into the problem, and you see that it's really complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That's sort of the middle, and that's where most people stop... But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, the underlying principle of the problem - and come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works.”

“If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.”

“My philosophy is that everything starts with a great product.”

“I hate the way people use PowerPoints instead of thinking”

“Let them know precisely what you are going to do with their data”

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

“We're just enthusiastic about what we do.”

“One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.”

“You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.”

“We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.”

“You've got to find what you love.”

“My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs.”

“When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.”

“Probably death is the best invention of life.”

“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.”

“The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores.”

“We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are basically tool users. So if we can just get lots of computers to lots of people, it will make some qualitative difference to the world.”

“My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.”

“The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.”

“The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it.”

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”

“It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.”

“A small team of (A plus) players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.”

“The technology companies don't understand creative things at all. Silicon Valley's view of the creative process in Hollywood is a bunch of guys in their young thirties sitting on a couch, drinking beer, and thinking up jokes.”

“I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!”