Steve Jobs Quotes

He is a very smart cookie, Michael. He knows what he wants, he knows what he is doing. I have nothing but admiration. Also, he is a very kind person.

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy. And that's how I have to deal with it.

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

This is approximately the way Christendom relates to the essentially Christian, the unconditioned. After seventeen, eighteen detours and running all around someone finally has his finite existence assured, and then we receive a sermon about Seek first the kingdom of God. Is this sobriety or is this intoxication? p. 112

You sound like a hillbilly; We want folk singers here.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

The Third World deserves freedom of speech just like everyone else. We want to fight the battle to say what we want, whether to be serious or just make fun of ourselves. That's what "Worldtown" is about, that's what "Paper Planes" is about. It's what people in the third world live through.

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

I don't have any plans for new music, at all, I want a big break after this and I think I want to do other creative things, just for a little while.

I underlined my conviction that running a business and managing an enterprise were not merely a private concern but a public endeavor.

Suppose we try to locate the cause of disorder, we shall find it lies in the want of mutual love.

The Second Amendment! It says you have the right to bear arms, or the right to arm bears, whatever the hell you want to do!

I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.

Sense of justice is one of the most wonderful ideals of Islam, because as I read in the Quran I find those dynamic principles of life, not mystic but practical ethics for the daily conduct of life suited to the whole world.