Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.

To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.

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.

We believe people with Passion CAN change the World for the Better." -Steve Jobs

So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.

I've got to tell you, the Internet is a place you go when you want to turn your brain on, and television is a place you go when you want to turn your brain off. I'm not at all convinced that the twain will meet.