Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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.
The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems. I believe that very much.
In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.
Open your eyes! The world is still intact; it is as pristine as it was on the first day, as fresh as milk!
Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.
To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!