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Under Steve Jobs, there's zero tolerance for not performing," its CEO said. At another point, when VLSI Technology was having trouble delivering enough chips on time, Jobs stormed into a meeting and started shouting that they were "fucking dickless assholes." The company ended up getting the chips to Apple on time, and its executives made jackets that boasted on the back, "Team FDA.

Jobs obsessed over every aspect of the new building, from the overall concept to the tiniest detail regarding materials and construction. "Steve had this firm belief that the right kind of building can do great things for a culture," said Pixar's president Ed Catmull. Jobs controlled the creation of the building as if he were a director sweating each scene of a film. "The PIxar building was Steve's own movie," Lasseter said.

Customers don't know what they want until we've shown them.

Unlike other product developers, Jobs did not believe the customer was always right; if they wanted to resist using a mouse, they were wrong.

Jobs had always been an extremely opinionated eater, with a tendency to instantly judge any food as either fantastic or terrible. He could taste two avocados that most mortals would find indistinguishable, and declare that one was the best avocado ever grown and the other inedible.

Years later, on a Steve Jobs discussion board on the website Gawker, the following tale appeared from someone who had worked at the Whole Foods store in Palo Alto a few blocks from Jobs' home: 'I was shagging carts one afternoon when I saw this silver Mercedes parked in a handicapped spot. Steve Jobs was inside screaming at his car phone. This was right before the first iMac was unveiled and I'm pretty sure I could make out, 'Not. Fucking. Blue. Enough!!!

Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there__ another side to the coin, and you can__ remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important__reating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

It is no longer just engineers who dominate our technology leadership, because it is no longer the case that computers are so mysterious that only engineers can understand what they are capable of. There is an industry-wide shift toward more "product thinking" in leadership--leaders who understand the social and cultural contexts in which our technologies are deployed.Products must appeal to human beings, and a rigorously cultivated humanistic sensibility is a valued asset for this challenge. That is perhaps why a technology leader of the highest status--Steve Jobs--recently credited an appreciation for the liberal arts as key to his company's tremendous success with their various i-gadgets.

So, your kids must love the iPad?_ I asked Mr. [Steve] Jobs, trying to change the subject. The company__ first tablet was just hitting the shelves. __hey haven__ used it,_ he told me. __e limit how much technology our kids use at home._ (Nytimes article, Sept. 10, 2014)

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.

That__ been one of my mantras _ focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it__ worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. [BusinessWeek, May 25 1998]

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