Tech Legend Inspirational Legacy: Steve Jobs Quotes

.Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”

As the world is mourning the passing of Steve Jobs, the media reminds us of all the amazing products he launched, from the personal computer to the iPod and iPhone. Besides his innovative qualities and accomplishments, the legend of the digital age is also to be remembered as a great showman and inspirator. Here are some of his best-known quotes, many of them being part of his famous Stanford commencement speech in 2005 (video).
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On death. “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.” (Periscope Post)

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” (The Wall Street Journal)

On life. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.” (News One)

“You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” (The Hindu)

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” (The Hindu)

On money. “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. ... Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, ... that’s what matters to me.”

"I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year…. It’s very character-building." (Exception Mag)

On business. "My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are not done by one person, they are done by a team of people." (Exception Mag)

On computers. It takes these very simple-minded instructions – ‘Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number’ – but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic. (The Wall Street Journal)

On design. “Look at the design of a lot of consumer products — they’re really complicated surfaces. We tried to make something much more holistic and simple. When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Most people just don’t put in the time or energy to get there. We believe that customers are smart, and want objects which are well thought through.” (The Wall Street Journal)