Steve Jobs defined himself specifically in terms of art, famously defining Apple's success in this way: "It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough. It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields the results that make our hearts sing."

Bob Rice, Tangent Capital Partners, in an interview with Bloomberg once spoke of Steve Jobs as "living at the intersection of art and technology".

“The first rule is that you've got to have multiple models—because if you just have one or two that you're using, the nature of human psychology is such that you'll torture reality so that it fits your models."

"Most people are trained in one model – economics, for example – and try to solve all problems in one way. You know the old saying: To the man with a hammer, the world looks like a nail. This is a dumb way of handling problems.”