When you want to understand something that’s never been understood before, what you have to do is construct conceptual scaffolding. And if you’re trying to design a computer you will literally immerse yourself in the thousands of details necessary; all of a sudden, as the scaffolding gets set up high enough, it will all become clearer and clearer and that’s when the breakthrough starts. It is a rhythmic experience, or it is an experience where everything’s related to everything else and it’s all intertwined. And it’s such a fragile, delicate experience that it’s very much like music. But you could never describe it to anyone.
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You can’t 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.
— Steve Jobs (via sahil)
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Like Walt Disney, Steve (Jobs) had an expectation of excellence. He has obsessively high standards and he never accepted the merely good; he only accepted insanely great. He believed success came from collaboration, and great things in business were never done by one person. He thought deeply about everything and never rushed important matters. He would urge me to focus on what counts. He believed what mattered most was “great ideas and great people
— Robert A. Iger
President and CEO of The Walt Disney Company
Taken from the 2011 Annual Report of The Walt Disney Company
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Steve Jobs showed some friends the qualities of the new iMac computer unveiled at MacWorld. After his keynote address, Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs mingled with the people looking at the newest offerings from Apple.

Steve Jobs showed some friends the qualities of the new iMac computer unveiled at MacWorld. After his keynote address, Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs mingled with the people looking at the newest offerings from Apple.

Steve Jobs speaks at a NeXT product release at their headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. on Oct. 5, 1988.

Steve Jobs speaks at a NeXT product release at their headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. on Oct. 5, 1988.

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs poses for a portrait on September 21, 1985

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs poses for a portrait on September 21, 1985

Walt Disney Company CEO Michael Eisner, Pixar producer John Lasseter, and Pixar Studios President Steve Jobs attend the opening of the 2001 Disney-Pixar co-release Monsters, Inc..

Walt Disney Company CEO Michael Eisner, Pixar producer John Lasseter, and Pixar Studios President Steve Jobs attend the opening of the 2001 Disney-Pixar co-release Monsters, Inc..