What Steve Jobs thinks about curiosity

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American entrepreneur (1955 to 2011); co-founded Apple in 1976 and led it again from 1997 to 2011; ran Pixar from 1986 to 2006.

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2 dated positions, 1995 to 1998, in their own words. Our reading of what Steve Jobs has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 14 May 1998

   Our readingThe Internet is a place to turn one’s brain on, and television a place to turn it off.

   Their wordsthe Internet is a place you go when you want to turn your brain on, and a television is a place you go when you want to turn your brain off.

   ↗Steve Jobs: 'There's sanity returning' (Business Week, May 1998): Q&Aweb.archive.org 1st of 3 in this piece

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3. 20 Apr 1995

   Our readingIn education the most important thing is a person who incites and feeds a child’s curiosity, which machines cannot do the way people can.

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   Their wordsThe most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can.

   ↗Steve Jobs oral history interview with Daniel Morrow (Smithsonian, 20 April 1995): excerptsweb.archive.org 2nd of 11 in this piece