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.
- Steve Jobs
More Quotes By Steve Jobs
It wasn’t that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it’s that the Mac was... Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things... Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the... When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don’t really understand the complexity... Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don’t know any better.
If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas,... There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat.... When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are... The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That’s over.... If a user is having a problem, it’s our problem.
Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they... We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
You’ve got to have a problem that you want to solve; a wrong that you want to right.
If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.
We’ve got to make the small things unforgettable.
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