Quotes

  "The profits are in the computers themselves, not this software stuff ".-IBM Executive

This quote makes us know that in the past no one would imagine getting rich from selling software. Today´s wealthiest man on earth made his fortune with it. So everyone knows that you can take huge profits from software and that the IBM Executive who´s this quote is from was completely wrong.

 "Good artists copy, great artists steal".-Steve Jobs

When Steve Jobs said this he was trying to say that if you want to be great you got to innovate something.
Because you can do a good thing copying from someone but everybody would know how you did it. If you steal someones work and present it as yours everybody will recognize it as your work.

"Steve Wozniak: Where's your beard? Steve Jobs: In the bathroom sink. I shaved it off. Steve Wozniak: Well, how come? Steve Jobs: 'Cause banks don't like beards."

This conversation between Wozniak and Jobs was after Steve went into several banks to get a loan.
All of them rejected it because of his hippy appereance so when he realized that decided that shaving his beard would help him to get what he want. Wozniak was shocked when he saw Steve without his bear but
in the end it actually worked. This proves that your appereance has a lot to do with success.

" Bill Gates: Now, we know that IBM has set up this place to complete head-on with Apple, and that you're gearing up to come out with a personal computer that will wipe them out. So we can get you an operating system. IBM executive: What kind of operating system? Bill Gates: It's called DOS. Ballmer (narrating): This is amazing. Not just amazing, it's historic. It should be taught in all the history books. Hung and framed in the National Gallery or something, because this is the instant of creation of one of the greatest fortunes in the history of the world. I mean, Bill Gates is the richest guy in the world because of what started in this room. And you wanna know what else? It wasn't exactly smoke and mirrors, but we didn't have anything! I mean, not a damn thing! Here we were, this two-bit little outfit, telling IBM we had the answer to their problems. The DOS? The Disk Operating System? To make all those zillion IBM computers compute? We didn't remotely own anything like what Bill was selling them. Nada. Zip"

At this time Bill went into an IBM office and explain the DOS (Disk Operating System) and how it will make work IBM computers better than apple ones. At this time Gates was making the deal which lead him to his inmense fortune. The only problem was that at that time they had nothing just an idea but they presented it so well that IBM executives actually believed them.

 "Arlene: Steve, why do you care what I call the baby? Steve Jobs: Because I don't want the baby named Rainbow! Or Orisha, or Ravi Shankar, or any other name like that."

This was when Steve went into Arlene´s house months after denying his son. He persuaded her to name the baby as he wanted but at a point she got mad and told him that why does he care if he didn´t accepted it first. Then he makes it clear that he cared because he actually didn´t want the baby to be a hippy and wanted good things for her.

 "Bill Gates: I don't understand - how does the hardware handle the mouse/cursor display? Gilmore: No, it's all right here in the software... Steve Jobs: Enough! [angrily mashes button, closing the Macintosh display] Gilmore: Sorry, Steve. Steve Jobs: There's no use torturing our guests with what they can't have"