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.

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.

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

Sacred space in whichTo distil, like amber, The best of your love.

[I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive.

He looks good for a while, but ya know, ya can’t shine a sneaker.

If I disagree with you sometimes, it's because I have a mind of my own.

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don't watch what I eat. It's not like you have #‎ Christmas every day!

I admire ventriloquists, because I can't do that. I mean, I might get mistaken for a ventriloquist dummy every now and then, but I can't do what they do.

Like all successful politicians I married above myself.

Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.

Few souls understand what God would effect in them if they should give themselves entirely into his hands and allow his grace to act.