
In a review of the Macintosh in The San Francisco Examiner (19 February 1984)
1980s & 1990s
Quoted by his biographer, Walter Isaacson http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/steve-jobs-in-the-end-he-didnt-like-the-off-switch/61586?tag=nl.e589
2010s
Context: Sometimes I believe in God, sometimes I don’t. I think it’s 50-50 maybe. But ever since I’ve had cancer, I’ve been thinking about it more. And I find myself believing a bit more. I kind of – maybe it’s ’cause I want to believe in an afterlife. That when you die, it doesn’t just all disappear. The wisdom you’ve accumulated. Somehow it lives on, but sometimes I think it’s just like an on-off switch. Click and you’re gone. And that’s why I don’t like putting on-off switches on Apple devices.
In a review of the Macintosh in The San Francisco Examiner (19 February 1984)
1980s & 1990s
After a mobile phone rang at his talk at Moscow State University (3 March 2008)
2000s
“Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch. ”
Why Apple needs to liberate iOS http://venturebeat.com/2016/07/27/why-apple-needs-to-liberate-ios in VentureBeat (27 July 2016)
“I wish there was an on & off switch for my brain. I think too fucking much.”
22 April 2014 https://twitter.com/alka_seltzer666/status/458559591698014208
Twitter https://twitter.com/alka_seltzer666 posts
“Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution.
Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.”
Source: Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims