One of Job's great strengths was knowing how to focus. " Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do, " he said. " That's true for companies, and it's true for products.

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book." (Steven Levy)

Form follows emotion

Sculley found Jobs as memorable as his machine. " He seemed more a showman than a businessman. Every move seemed calculated, as if it was rehearsed, to create an occasion of the moment.

Customers don't know what they want until we've shown them.

Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future. " If anybody was ever wondering why Apple is on the earth, I would hold up this as a good example

Steve's sales pitch on the NeXT operating system was dazzling, " according to Amelio. " He praised the virtues and strengths as though he were describing a performance of Oliver as Macbeth.

As Friedland had done and as Jobs would learn to do, he was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to cajole and intimidate and distort reality with the power of his personality

A friend can give you the freedom to think differently.

Travel teaches as much as books.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone.

I've learned a lot just being able to see things clearer.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.

I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.