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For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#about #am #answer #asked #been

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#after #ask #because #connect #connecting

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#built #by the time #customers #get #give

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#asks #boy #down #i #i do

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#apple #ceased #certainly #computer #computer industry

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#actions #after #ask #certain #computers

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#asked #entitlement #me #owed

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record. ↗

— Billy Joel

#ban #banned #did #die #good

I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do! ↗

— Roland Joffe

#always #asked #because #cannot #conversation

We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners. ↗

— Mike Johanns

#base #believe #decisions #delivering #good