"Here is to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They are not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you cannot do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
- Steve Jobs, 'Think Different' Campaign (1997)
"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."
- George Orwell, 1984
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
- Henry Ford
"You cannot connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
- Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speech (2005)
"Your time is limited, so do not waste it living someone else's life. Do not be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Do not let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
- Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speech (2005)
"Remembering that I will be dead soon is the most important tool I have ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven do not want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new."
- Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speech (2005)
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
- Albert Einstein