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Two of my favorites are not there: "I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something." and "I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success — I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success, for the most par…
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” I think this is simply one of…
"It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do."
> Some people are saying that we ought to put an IBM PC on every desk in America to improve productivity. It won’t work. The special incantations you have to learn this time are the “slash q-zs” and things like that.
Wow I find this one especially prescient. Imo it shows real insight, and shows he wasn't following some pipe dream.
Folklore.org seems to be down right now, but my favorite Steve Jobs exchange is the following: We worked our way up to the front of the crowd to get a good look at the units [Osborne 1] that were on display. We started to ask one of the presenters a technical question, when we were suprised to see Adam Osborne himself standing a few feet from us, looking at our show badges, preempting the response. "Oh, some Apple fo…
This anecdote is just another flavour of "The winners get to write the histories".
All armchair commentators would do well to consider this one: Q: There’s a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic? “You’re missing it. This is not a one-man show. What’s reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there’s a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years,…
Perhaps the most pertinent to startup life: "“It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.”
Folklore.org seems to be down right now, but my favorite Steve Jobs exchange is the following: We worked our way up to the front of the crowd to get a good look at the units [Osborne 1] that were on display. We started to ask one of the presenters a technical question, when we were suprised to see Adam Osborne himself standing a few feet from us, looking at our show badges, preempting the response. "Oh, some Apple fo…
It seems he was a failed (relatively speaking) genius. He is credited with building the first computer for people. Also was briefly considered a contemporary of Bill G and Steve Jobs:
"on April 3rd, 1981 when a startup called Osborne Computer Corporation announced the Osborne 1 at the West Coast Computer Faire at San Francisco’s Brooks Hall. It was the first true mass-produced portable PC and one of the most popular computers of its time" (Source: http://technologizer.com/2011/04/01/osborne-computer/)
He also: "he founded another company that also collapsed–but not before helping to pioneer the idea of really cheap software"
He later died in India at the age of 64, in 2003. Where he was born and educated when he was a very young.