I want to put a ding in the universe.

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About Steve Jobs

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Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple with his early business partner Steve Wozniak as Apple Computer Company in 1976. After the company's board of...

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

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The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.

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.

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The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

—Albert Einstein

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There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

—Robert A. Heinlein

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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

—Douglas Adams

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