The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research - yet nonetheless had an amazing sense of what consumers actually wanted.

  • -- James Surowiecki 索罗斯基

史蒂夫•乔布斯职业生涯的矛盾之处在于,他对倾听消费者的需求毫无兴趣——众所周知,他对市场研究不屑一顾——然而,他对消费者真正想要什么有着惊人的感觉。

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Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.

听别人说什么甚至不重要。但重要的是要让自己看起来像是在听别人说话。实际上,在我看来,听别人说话会妨碍你看起来像在听别人说话一样。

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.

这对我来说是一个悖论,我唯一知道怎么做的就是演戏,但我在写作时放弃的第一件事是角色。

Always listen to your heart because even though it's on your left side, it's always right.

永远听从内心的声音,因为即使它在你的左边,它总是对的。

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

从思考者那里去掉悖论,你就有了一位教授。