Steve Jobs' Best Quotes Ever(wired.com)
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Steve Jobs' Best Quotes Ever
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/mac/0,70512-0.html
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"insanely great things the man has said"
What the eff? Something about dead fish and the Japanese? All right, whatever. Very insanely great, indeed. Reminds me of a certain information minister for both coherence and modesty:
http://welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/
He's a good businessman, though. He took an early lead in the PC business and turned it into this generation's Sony Walkman knockoff + an overpriced Intel machine running Unix. Oh, and Wired magazine thinks his utterances are "insanely great":
"The products suck! There's no sex in them anymore!"
Steve, I owned an Apple II. There wasn't a mother Theresa pinup calendar's worth of sex in it.
What the eff? Something about dead fish and the Japanese? All right, whatever. Very insanely great, indeed. Reminds me of a certain information minister for both coherence and modesty:
http://welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/
He's a good businessman, though. He took an early lead in the PC business and turned it into this generation's Sony Walkman knockoff + an overpriced Intel machine running Unix. Oh, and Wired magazine thinks his utterances are "insanely great":
"The products suck! There's no sex in them anymore!"
Steve, I owned an Apple II. There wasn't a mother Theresa pinup calendar's worth of sex in it.
Well, he certainly succeeded at that. I really think Ed Catmull is one of the world's best examples of pure hacker/nerds becoming great businessmen because of their technical expertise. Organizations and software are very similar, it's no coincidence that the most successful tech companies are run by technologists.