Steve Jobs on the "Recession" *GASP*

"We've had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren't going to lay off people, that we'd taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place -- the last thing we were going to do is lay them off.

And we were going to keep funding.

In fact we were going to up our R&D budget so that we would be ahead of our competitors when the downturn was over. And that's exactly what we did. And it worked. And that's exactly what we'll do this time."

::Steve Jobs speaking with Fortune senior editor Betsy Morris, March 07, 2008::

"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules.

And they have no respect for the status quo.

You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius...

...Because the people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Think Different."

::Steve Jobs, Apple Founder and CEO::

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"...If we are to live life in harmony with the universe - we all must possess a powerful faith in what the ancients used to call fatum, what we currently refer to as destiny.

...The belief that life is not merely a series of meaningless accidents or coincidences. But rather, it's a tapestry of events that culminate in an exquisite, sublime, plan."
::Serendipity::

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"I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream."

::Van Gogh::

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Expectations...

Expect nothing more -- nothing less -- than for this to be a selection of myriad movie quotes, song lyrics, or otherwise life-fitting quotes or prose.