#steve

He was a man too busy to flush toilets. ↗

— Mona Simpson

#business

With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of people didn’t notice and maybe still don’t. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the cliché archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote. ↗

— Steven Erikson

#fiction #glen-cook #review #steven-erikson #change

Real artists ship. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#r-i-p #steve #design

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#apple #apple-computer-inc #bible #catholicism #christianity

The main thing in our design is that we have to make things intuitively obvious. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#design

Finally Jobs proposed Apple Computer. “I was on one of my fruitarian diets,” he explained. “I had just come back from the apple farm. It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge off the word ‘computer.’ Plus, it would get us ahead of Atari in the phone book ↗

— Steve Jobs

#ataris #computer #steve-jobs #walter-isaacson #diet

I'm watching a dream I'll never wake up from. -Spike Speigel ↗

— Keiko Nobumoto

#dreams #life #spike-speigel #steven-blum #dreams

If you stop chasing your dream, you're already dead. ↗

— Steve Mazan

#dreams

Life itself is simple...it's just not easy. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #inspirational #life #motivational #simple

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#life #r-i-p #steve #courage