Top 10 Steve Jobs Quotes of 2010
2010 has been one hack of a year, with Apple’s iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G, *cough* Antennagate *cough*, and so much more. Well, while I was browsing around on the web, I came across a post on the top 10 Steve Jobs’ quotes of the year. I found it very funny and quite good, so thought I’d share it with you. And whats better than to have the last post of this year dedicated to the Top 10 Steve Jobs Quotes of 2010? Ok, maybe a huge promo code giveaway, but we had one over Christmas. But anyway, here’s the quotes.
#10. “It is not a sweatshop. You go in this place and it’s a factory but, my gosh, they’ve got restaurants and movie theaters and hospitals and swimming pools. For a factory, it’s pretty nice.”
Steve defending the conditions at FoxConn in reference to the Foxconn workers suicide scandal.
#9. “Would you rather we were a Korean company, instead of an American company? Would you rather we weren’t innovating right here?
Steve Jobs at Antennagate on patriotism.
#8. “I get a lot of email and my address is out there. I can’t reply to all of these emails — I have a day job. Some people post them on the web, which is kind of rude.”
Steve Jobs talking at the “Antennagate” Keynote, referring to the emails he received complaining about signal loss with the iPhone 4.
#7. “I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can’t do that. I’d rather quit.”
Steve Jobs responds when asked about the Gizmodo.com lost prototype fiasco, saying that many people told him he should “let it slide.”
#6. “We never saw ourselves in a platform war with Microsoft, and maybe that’s why we lost.”
Steve Jobs at D8 when asked whether he sees competition with Google and Microsoft as a platform war.
#5. “We did not enter the search business. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them.”
Steve at a private TownHall meeting for Apple employees a few days after announcing the iPad, talking about Google and their Android platform.
#4. “Please leave us alone.”
Steve’s email response to Long Island University Student Chelsea Isaacs after she sent a series of argumentative emails to Jobs.
#3. “I’m sorry about your girlfriend. Life is fragile.”
Jobs’ softer side is on display in response to a fan who emails him expressing gratitude for Jobs’ recent work on pushing a pro-organ donation bill through the California state senate. The emailer’s girlfriend recently passed away from a melanoma infection in her liver
#2. “My sex life is pretty good these days, Walt. How’s yours?”
Steve Jobs’ response to Walt Mossberg’s question “How’s your relationship?” at D8. Mossberg and Job’s were discussing Apple’s stance on Google.
#1. “We’re not perfect.”
Steve Jobs apologizing to users during his speech at the Antennagate Keynote.
[Mac News Source]