Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one.
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.
Donald Trump proved that he understood America in the way that those who say they're informing America simply did not.
One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.
"Do you have the talent?" is rarely the question. "Do you have the guts to finish?" is the real question.
Ronald Reagan got a lot of democrats. I wish he hadn`t. I got to Congress with Reagan coming to the Whitehouse. The Reagan Program, a very radical one, a very drastic one passed because he had a lot of democrats. He worked at it personally and also because Reagan retained a popularity.