Steve Jobs is always headline material. He headed Apple's ascension to the top of BusinessWeek50 and has joined the 29 best CEOs to round up the Barron's Hall of Fame, and yet you can't get enough of him. Well, if you crave that much for Steve Jobs, perhaps you'd be happy with some of the best Steve Jobs quotes.

"The CEO of Apple Computer is a master of hype, hyperbole and the catchy phrase. Even when he's trying to talk normally, brilliant verbiage comes tumbling out."

Here's his take on innovation and design, fixing Apple, sales pitches that got us buying so many iPods, Pixar, and even life's lessons.

"It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing."
-- At age 29, in Playboy, February 1985

"I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do."
-- BusinessWeek Online, Oct. 12, 2004

"The products suck! There's no sex in them anymore!"
-- On Gil Amelio's lackluster rein, in BusinessWeek, July 1997

"Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could -- I'm searching for the right word -- could, could die."
-- On his return as interim CEO, in Time, Aug. 18, 1997

"We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them."
-- Jobs, on Mac OS X's Aqua user interface (Fortune, Jan. 24, 2000)

"There are sneakers that cost more than an iPod."
-- On the iPod's $300 price tag, Newsweek, Oct. 27, 2003

"I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building."
-- Apple Confidential 2.0