Today is the two year anniversary of Steve Jobs‘s death.

He was an iconoclast and often polarizing, but never afraid to tell you exactly what he thought, whether it was during a public speech or a private conversation.

Wired and the Wall Street Journal shared some great roundups of their favorite Steve Jobs quotes when his failing health required him to step down as CEO of Apple. We selected a few that were especially awesome.

Incredible words from an incredible businessman, designer, and fellow human. 

On computers

“It takes these very simple-minded instructions—‘Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number’––but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.”

[Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985]

On design

“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”

[BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998]

The best sales line ever?

“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?”

[The line he used to lure John Sculley into becoming Apple's CEO, according to Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple]

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