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。

相关名言

It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I've so missed England.

这是最令人惊讶的一年,因为我经历了一次奇妙的冒险,但我也有点同情那些被迫流亡的人,因为我太想念英格兰了。

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

在我看来,你们都像是快乐的露营者。你是快乐的露营者,你曾经是快乐的露营者,而且,在我看来,你永远都会是快乐的露营者。

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

当你从别人或一种文化中学习到一些东西时,你会把它当作一种礼物来接受,而你一生的责任就是保护它,并在此基础上继续发展。

I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, if this isn't nice, i don't know what is.

我希望你能注意到自己什么时候是快乐的,并在某个时刻大声叫喊、喃喃自语或思考,如果这不是件好事,我不知道什么是快乐。

Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.

有时候,正如我所说,你必须在力所能及的地方搭建桥梁——但在必须的地方划一条线。

Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.

人生太短了,二十年都不可能是一个精力充沛的人。