I dont think Ive ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldnt be ours anymore. – Steve Jobs
You cant just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, theyll want something new. – Steve Jobs
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay. – Steve Jobs
Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes. – Steve Jobs
I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realise thats what myths are for. Its for human beings to process their experience in extremis. – Michael Sheen