Quotes about Steve Jobs

I remember when he phoned the day he met Laurene. "There's this beautiful woman and she's really smart and she has this dog and I'm going to marry her."

When [Steve Jobs' son] Reed was born, he [Steve Jobs] began gushing and never stopped.

When I hurt my spine and I was in trouble, this package arrived of books and CDs and music and honey from [Steve Jobs'] garden—tons of stuff arrived at the house. And so, yes, he was a captain of industry, a warrior for his companies. But I found him to be a very thoughtful friend, and a wonderfully detailed and interested parent of his kids, and lover of his wife. There were those two sides to him, the warrior, and then the very, very tender and soft-spoken side. I already miss him.

Steve was the most important friend in my life. He had an incredible mind that couldn't be measured or recognized by normal methods. Like art, it couldn't be put into a formula.

We had very little money and no foreseeable prospects. One evening after we had splurged on dinner and a movie, we walked back to our car to discover a $25 parking ticket. I just turned inside out with despair, but Steve did not seem to care. He had a deep well of patience when it came to discouragements. We drovE to the ocean...where I began talking about money worries. He gave me a long, exasperated look, reached into his pockets and took the few last coins and dollar we had and threw them into the ocean. All of them.