As everyone knows by now, Jobs resigned yesterday because of health reasons. Here are my three favorite Steve Jobs quotes from the past few years.
“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.”[BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998)
-Simple Good, Complex Bad 
. Ironically an IBM slogan from the 90's.
“Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. … One is very fortunate if you get to work on just one of these in your career. Apple’s been very fortunate it’s been able to introduce a few of these into the world.” [Announcement of the iPhone, Jan. 9, 2007]
-Powerful and true statement.
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.” [Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]
-Happy to say that I’ve found this job several times. I consider myself very lucky to have worked with the products I have. PGP, CyberCop Scanner Ballista, Gauntlet and ExpectID IQ to name just a few. I loved working on all of them. And of course the product I’m currently working on that I’m not allowed to say anything about yet . The feeling of accomplishment after a release and working with people as passionate as you are about the product or solution is what gets me to work excited every day of the week (and on weekends)
More Steve Jobs quotes available over at WSJ.
