M.C. Steve Quotes

It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?

It [what you choose to do] has got to be something that you're passionate about because otherwise you won't have the perseverance to see it through.

Design isn't just how it looks. It's how it works.

You don't raise $15 million by accident. I'm asking him to come forward and quit claiming he doesn't know what's going on in his own campaign.

As Regis Mckenna once said, the best marketing is education

The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It's not a speculative market. It's a very, very large market. It's been around for thousands of years and will be around as long as humans exist.

A promise made should be a promise kept.

Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?

There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic?

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

We just wanted to build the best thing we could build

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy. On the importance of loving what you do.

I think the world's a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn't to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right?

You've probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind of you and you can't breathe. That's how I felt.

To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this?

Innovation means saying 'no' to a thousand things.

I consider the Detroit Red Wings one of the greatest franchises in any sport. For a player to come in and play, it's so special to wear the jersey.

The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen.'

If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have bought the company.

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.

This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had.

What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone.

Apple is the only company in the world that has all of that under one roof. We can invent a complete a solution that works - and take responsibility for it.

Probably death is the best invention of life.

Mileage makes champions

Out of frustration, you do drugs when you can't write. On occasion that might work, but usually what happens is that once you've had on drink, you just want another drink.

Go to the moon, that's my dream.

Having a great idea is important. But having a great team is also important.

I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away.

A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes.

. . . it's not just the people we love, but the people we let love us back who show us how high we can really soar.

If you really got the right people, and you've got them working together as a team, whether it's in business, whether it's in science, whether it's in politics, you can make a big difference.

I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start

One person with the ability of half a person doing the work of four people.

When you undergo a visionary experience, what you are really doing is blowing your socially conditioned, 20th century, hive mind and allowing your brain to, literally, come to its senses.

If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.

Life is about growing, learning, and becoming. You can not grow, learn, or become if you can not embrace the changes in your life.

I will be a missionary in a remote village at some point.

Bezos is super smart; don't get me wrong. He just makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies.

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.

If people like you, they'll give you a hand. But if they trust you, they'll give you their heart. And heart to heart, we can face anything together.

Steve Buscemi is hilarious. He's really, really good with improv.

We're very focused in on outcomes for government with respect to the amount of tax that goes in and the amount of expenditures that go out.

A child can escape the shadows.

People are very protective of their cell phones, how it's used, where it's used and how much it costs. It has become a very personal issue for a whole lot of people in this country.

We primarily grow as human beings by discovering new truths about ourselves and our reality.

Few things sound so beautiful as the poetic accent of a Welsh woman.

If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I love history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, international settings.

Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information.

I feel very comfortable going at full speed.