Steve Jobs Quotes


So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.


Citations

Sheff, David. "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs." Playboy, Feb. 1985, p. 73.

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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
  • Born: February 24, 1955
  • Died: October 5, 2011
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Entrepreneur, Industrial Designer, Investor, Media Proprietor

Steven Paul Jobs, was an American business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor. He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co-founder of Apple Inc.; the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar; a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with his early buisness partner and fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.