Success Quote by Steve Jobs

Innovation, in Jobs's telling, isn't a scheduled deliverable; it's a social accident you can encourage but never fully manage. The hallways and late-night calls aren't cute details. They're a rebuke to the fantasy that creativity can be neatly routed through org charts, Jira tickets, and quarterly OKRs. Jobs is elevating proximity and obsession as infrastructure: the serendipity of bumping into the right person, the urgency that makes 10:30 p.m. feel like a reasonable time to interrupt someone's life, the shared language that lets a half-formed thought become a product-shaping insight.

The subtext is a theory of power. If innovation is born in informal collisions, then leadership's job is to shape environments, not just strategies. This is why Jobs fought for physical spaces that forced interaction and why he was famously impatient with anything that diluted intensity. The line about "shoots holes" signals his deeper preference for ideas that don't merely add features but puncture assumptions. He's not praising brainstorming; he's praising disruption of the mental model, the moment when a team realizes the problem statement itself is wrong.

Context matters: this worldview comes out of Apple's crucible, where secrecy, tight teams, and high craft were treated as existential advantages. It's also an early argument against a purely remote, purely asynchronous future: not because remote work can't produce breakthroughs, but because Jobs believed breakthroughs are often born from friction, interruption, and the kind of human closeness that turns a passing comment into a leap.