“If you need to use a task manager, you’re doing it wrong.”
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who didn’t quite admit that his company failed to buy AdMob, a mobile-advertising startup, because of an inability to multitask, CNET News, 8 April 2010
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WE KNOW HALF OF THE MONEY SPENT ON ADVERTISING STARTUPS IS WASTED, WE JUST DON’T KNOW WHICH HALF
April 8, 2010SHOULD WE MAKE A JOKE ABOUT A NICE CHIANTI, OR IS IT TOO SOON?
March 19, 2010“There were not enough livers in California to go around. I was advised by my Stanford doctors to enroll on a list at a Memphis hospital, because it was more favorable to get a liver there.”
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, on his efforts to make it easier to get a transplant without a private jet and your own team of doctors on call, San Jose Mercury News, 19 March 2010
I AM THE KEYMASTER
March 3, 2010“In fact, we’ve been allowed to work on [an iPad], and it’s under padlock and key. The key is turned by Apple every night.”
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, on finding himself in the uncomfortable position of not owning his own printing presses, Business Insider, 3 March 2010
TELL THAT TO XEROX PARC
March 2, 2010“We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, on how the best inventions aren’t copied from someone else, unless they happen to be the Mac’s graphical user interface, the computer mouse, the MP3 player, or the tablet PC, Apple.com, 2 March 2010
YOU DON’T OWN ME
February 25, 2010“Shareholders’ meetings.”
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, answering an investor’s question at Apple’s annual shareholders’ meeting on what keeps him up at night, Apple 2.0, 25 February 2010
