Pirates
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Pirates are sea rogues who sail the oceans and often attack other ships in order to steal valuables aboard the victim's vessel or vessels.
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- It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.
- Steve Jobs, at a retreat in September 1982, as quoted in John Sculley and John A. Byrne, Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple – A Journey of Adventure, Ideas, and the Future (1987), p. 157
- Variant: Why join the Navy . . . if you can be a pirate?
- As quoted or paraphrased in Young Guns: The Fearless Entrepreneur's Guide to Chasing Your Dreams and Breaking Out on Your Own (2009) by Robert Tuchman, p. 18
- Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919), p. 997
- Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
- Mark Twain, in "Old Times on the Mississippi" in The Atlantic Monthly (January 1875)
