Steve Jobs Quotes

The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.

It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

Like many people out there, I'm inspired by the level of attention to detail, design and execution of Apple products.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

The core value that differentiates Apple is our ability to innovate.

One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer.

If I look to any company as a model, it's Apple. They're a brilliant design company working to create a lifestyle.

I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.

We are often celebrating technology and codes, but we don't really think about the creative side.

Apple is a unique company in that the art and the science sit together very nicely. There's an appreciation for both sides of the brain.

Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. ... In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.

I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.

Scientific discoveries and innovation come from combining different existing technologies and different perspectives in a unique way.

Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful . . . Great designers also pursue a mission. Great designers design with mankind in mind . . . The crossroads of science and art, innovation and inspiration are what I love about design.

Design is everything.

The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products.

Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines, but this isn't about competition, it's about collaboration and what these practices and processes can contribute to one another.

The autonomous individual, striving to realize himself and prove his worth, has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science and technology. The autonomous individual, also, when he can neither realize himself nor justify his existence by his own efforts, is a breeding call of frustration, and the seed of the convulsions which shake our world to its foundations.

I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The answer is synthesis, the ability to combine creativity and calculation, art and science, into whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts.

Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

Whether or not science can be applied to that mental construct [i.e. the designed entity] is a matter of availability. If there is body of scientific knowledge that can be applied, then it would be foolish not to exploit it. However, if there is none, it does not mean that the thing cannot be designed, made, and used safely.