It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

  • -- Steve Jobs 史蒂夫•乔布斯

我们花了三年时间造出了下一代计算机。如果我们能满足客户的需求,我们就能在与他们交谈一年后制造出一台他们满意的电脑——而不是他们现在想要的东西。

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To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this: the inability to confront that which is.

要想快乐,一个人必须能够面对,也就是说,经历,那些真实的事情。不快乐只是无法面对现实。

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.

像巴赫和贝多芬这样的艺术家在山上建立了教堂和寺庙。我只希望……为人们建造住所,让他们感到快乐和自在。

You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

没有适应力强的人,你无法建立一个适应力强的组织——而个人只有在必须或想要改变的时候才会改变。

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

我每年读一百多本书,从十五岁开始就这样做了,我读过的每一本书都教会了我一些东西。

I just like to build things and do things.

我只是喜欢创造和做事。