As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.


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I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from non-successful one...
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Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change t...
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I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could ...
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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is goin...
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I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years o...
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It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.
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It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
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I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful...
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Insanely Great!
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Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IB...
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It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do to...
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I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.
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And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than an...
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I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' g...
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We use industry standard RSS so that anyone can subscribe. You do not even need a Mac.
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This ushers in a new generation of iMacs. We started a partnership less than a year ago to make this...
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Monsters, Inc. may become our studio's fourth blockbuster, and provide ongoing revenues for years to...
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We are now in the phase of development where the foundational stuff is behind us,
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It's really very beautiful and very thin.
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This is the direct result of our focus on innovation and the immense talent and creativity at Apple....
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I think it's just the beginning.
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professional.
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We've got a lot of Japanese content on the store and we'll be adding even more as the months go on, ...
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Well, something had to leak,
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A LITTLE TASTE.
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WE PULLED IT OFF.
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We've got five or six things to tell you about today, so let's get started.
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We know Mac OS X is not perfect,
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X factor.
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It is not clear that buying songs over the air makes economic sense. I am skeptical because of the c...
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We're working on that too, but I'm not so sure it will be successful.
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We'll occupy both of them.
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You could have a negative view of having 4 or 5 percent share, but one of the positives is that you ...
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We're going to keep going until we're faster than those guys,
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You've given us the time to get this turned around and get the volumes back up, and we deeply apprec...
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to discover the deep sources of his character and motivation; what makes him exceptional as well as ...
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And you guys were putting Java in light bulbs and everything else,
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[Apple wants to make] not only the most powerful Macintosh built, but the most powerful [system] in ...
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We have modified the Mac OS so it can boot over a network. It thinks it's doing it locally, but it's...
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It's a non-issue for us... We sell computers.
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We think this is a real breakthrough. It's never before been done, where you can buy hit prime-time ...
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That same innovation, that same engineering, that same talent applied where we don't run up against ...
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Customers think the price is really good where it is. We're trying to compete with piracy — we're ...
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