I think PCs are going to be like trucks. Less people will need them. And this is going to make some people uneasy.
Steve JobsWhat had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I didn't really know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down. I was a very public failure.
Steve JobsPeople say sometimes, "You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world." I don't feel that way. I think I work in one of the slowest. It seems to take forever to get anything done.
Steve JobsSo let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.
Steve JobsAt Apple, people are putting in 18-hour days. We attract a different type of personโa person who doesnโt want to wait five or ten years to have someone take a giant risk on him or her. Someone who really wants to get in a little over his head and make a little dent in the universe. We are aware that we are doing something significant. Weโre here at the beginning of it and weโre able to shape how it goes. Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
Steve Jobs