“It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy. At a retreat in September 1982, as quoted in John Sculley and John A. Byrne, Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple”
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“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world? A comment he made in persuading John Sculley to become Apple's CEO, as quoted in Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple: A Journey of Adventure, Ideas, and the Future (1987) by John Sculley and John A. Byrne”
“I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that. On his expulsion from any position of authority at Apple, after having invited John Sculley to become CEO, as quoted in Playboy”
“If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years. On the early rivalry between Macintosh and "IBM”
“They're babes in the woods. I think I can help turn Alvy and Ed into businessmen. On Pixar co”
“Real artists ship. Epigram attributed to Steve Jobs during the development of the Macintosh, West of Eden by Frank Rose”
“It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300”
“You're ripping us off! I trusted you, and now you're stealing from us! Steve Jobs reactions on Microsoft Windows 1.0”
“We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream. Interview about the release of the Macintosh”
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