Steve Jobs Quotes

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

But everything you do in life has a downside.

In all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

Complexity and innovation are not always good things.

There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.

Danger is a side effect of what I do, not the reason behind it.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You never know what it’s going to look like on the other side, but you’ll see it eventually if you keep your eyes open.

The reason my games are chaotic is that the world is chaotic, not me. I don't aim for bad endings - they just naturally come out.

Sometimes a leap of faith doesn't pan out.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

I think about more than I forget, but I don't go around fire expecting not to sweat.

He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.

If you do put yourself out there and do things that are not safe, then you run the risk of being criticized for it.

Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever.

The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.

If failure is not an option, then neither is success.

Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.

Change isn't always for the best.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!

parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.