Steve Jobs' Top 10 Quotes in 2010

With the help of several product lines such as iPhone, iPad and iPod, Jobs has been elevated to the level of a great god. However, he still speaks human language. Recently, foreign media summarized his top ten quotes in 2010, and we can take a look together.

10: "This is not a sweatshop. When you walk into this factory, my goodness, they have restaurants, cinemas, hospitals, and swimming pools. These conditions are quite good for a factory" —— Jobs said this after visiting Foxconn following the suicide scandal at Foxconn.

9: "Do you want us to be a Korean company instead of an American one? Do you rather we just stop innovating?" —— Jobs' defensive remarks regarding the antenna gate incident.

8: "I received quite a few emails, but I cannot reply to each one of them —— because I have my own work. But some people posted the emails online, which is very impolite" —— At the press conference on the antenna gate issue, Jobs mentioned that he received many emails about the poor signal of the iPhone 4.

7: "I seriously thought about this issue, and my conclusion is: as we continue to grow and have more influence in the world, we will not change our core values; that would be the worst thing. I can't do it this way; I'd rather quit." —— After Gizmodo.com exposed the iPhone 4, many people told Jobs to "let it go", Jobs agreed it should be let go, and responded as such.

6: "We have never seen ourselves compete with Microsoft on the platform level, maybe that's why we lost?" —— Jobs' response when asked if he thought the competition between Google and Microsoft had escalated to a platform-level competition.

5: "You need to understand, we have never thought about doing search engine business, it's they who started the mobile phone business. They want to kill the iPhone, and we won't let them succeed!" —— Jobs' passionate speech when talking about the Android platform.

4: "Let me rest for a while" —— Jobs' reply to Chelsea Isaacs, a student from Long Island University, who sent a series of emails debating with Jobs, and finally the master had no choice but to beg for mercy.

3: "Life is so fragile, I'm sorry to hear about your girlfriend. " —— It's rare to see Jobs showing his gentle side, this was in response to a fan thanking Jobs for his efforts in promoting the passage of the organ donation bill by the California Senate, the fan's girlfriend had just passed away due to liver infection of melanoma.

2: "My sex life has been pretty good recently, what about yours?" —— Jobs' response when host Walt Mossberg asked about his relationship with Google founder Schmidt at the D8 Conference, deliberately avoiding discussing this issue (Schmidt is a former Apple employee).

1: "We are not perfect" —— Jobs' apology at the antenna gate press conference.