Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

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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 Inc. with his early business partner Steve Wozniak as Apple Computer Company in 1976. After the company's board...

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It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Give no decision till both sides thou'st heard.

My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

—Publilius Syrus

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

—Peter McWilliams

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

—Michael Pritchard

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

—Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us? How dare we let it into our decision making; into our livelihoods; into our relationships? It's funny isn't it? We take a day a year to dress up, in costume and celebrate fear.

—John F. Kennedy

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