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"Innovation comes from saying no to 1,000 things."
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"The principle virtue of anyone who made an important invention is curious persistence."
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"Do a new thing in a new way. Do it always!"
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"In the future, eyeglasses see all directions simultaneously.To be able to use hemiscope, eyes and brain need to practice."
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"Mankind soon will be forced to utilize a kind of technology that's still rejected by current civilization."
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"It is better to be creative than curious."
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"Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living."
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"Start the conversion process and birth your products."
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"Telephone did not come into existence from the persistent improvement of the postcard."
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"Stan wants to see them work the facial features, especially the smiles. He has a professional interest, from his job at Dimple. The Empathy Model he'd worked on could smile, but it was the same smile every time. Though what else did you need for checking out groceries? Put two eyes on anything and basically it looks like a face."
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"I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more."
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"It's not the tools that you have faith in. Tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not."
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"I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes."
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"The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay."
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"I want to put a ding in the universe."
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"I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."
Success

"I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better."
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"It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now."
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"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."
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"Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future."
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"I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things."
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