#ak

Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#company #complete #consumer #customer #dna

There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#allows #between #company #control #could

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#being #dell #industry #innovation #make

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#although #chew #commitment #design #get

The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out. ↗

— Alfred Jodl

#munich #out #pact #power #signed

There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process. ↗

— Mike Johanns

#amount #analysis #approach #base #decisions

You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had 'nervous exhaustion'? Well, I had one of those and discovered that I was quite close to death. I always assumed that my lifestyle was going to take me at an early age, but when it was actually occurring I was, 'Not yet!' I pulled back. ↗

— David Johansen

#age #always #assumed #back #because

But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#detailed #discoveries #fossil #four #had

One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#commitment #devote #make #oneself #particular

Trying to take the credit for Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard, who had been at the club since they were eight. Can you believe it? I can't. ↗

— Ian St. John

#believe #club #credit #eight #had