What Steve Jobs thinks about simplicity

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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, 1996 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 readingFocus and simplicity are worth the work: simple can be harder than complex, because the thinking has to be got clean, but once there one can move mountains.

   Their wordsEverything just got simpler. That's been one of my mantras -- focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

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

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3. 1 Feb 1996

   Our readingThe Web spread so fast largely because of its simplicity, and making it more complicated too quickly would be a loss.

   Their wordsOne of the major reasons for the Web's proliferation so far is its simplicity. A lot of people want to make the Web more complicated. They want to put processing on the clients, they want to do this and that. I hope not too much of that happens too quickly.

   ↗Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing (Wired, February 1996), interview by Gary Wolfwired.com 2nd of 9 in this piece