To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!
The HD revolution is over, it happened. HD won. Everybody wants HD.
If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. . . . I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. . . . It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.
I mean, some people say, 'Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble. ' And, you know, I think it wouldn't be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
To see the future you have to travel on the rough edge of experience.
Avoid food products that make health claims. at meals and eat them only at tables. And no, a desk is not a table.
We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.
For evil news rides post, while good news baits.