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Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)

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Re: Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)

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Post by system2 »

spoonjim wrote: post #38
testmasterflex wrote: post #4

Makes me think of something I always wondered; did Steve know programming? He did work at Atari right? I think I’ve always attributed Steve’s huge success to 3 things; Meeting Woz, Meeting Markkula and spending a lot of time to practise articulating himself. I must admit, I envy the man. Who doesn’t. Apple is a fantastic company and keeps releasing great products.

If you think Steve Jobs was just some lucky huckster you will never ship a great product.

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were at the right place at the right time with the right resources. Now we have the internet and everyone is connected, it is harder because of the competition.

Re: Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)

#43

Post by spoonjim »

system2 wrote: post #41
spoonjim wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you think Steve Jobs was just some lucky huckster you will never ship a great product.

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were at the right place at the right time with the right resources. Now we have the internet and everyone is connected, it is harder because of the competition.

Bill Gates was an insanely good programmer and Steve Jobs was an insanely good product manager. Yes they also had the right circumstances to succeed, just like J.S. Bach.

Re: Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)

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Post by epistasis »

markdown wrote: post #24
pkdpic wrote: post #9

>>> From: Steve Jobs To: Steve Jobs Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 11:08PM I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds. I do not make any of my own clothing. I speak a language I did not invent or refine. I did not discover the mathematics I use. I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate. I am mo…

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Given the complexities of the Whipple procedure, I'm not sure I would go through with it either, honestly.

I'm not a doctor, but I've dealt with a looot of oncologists, and with people at the end of life from cancer. Most cancer docs would choose to go through with far less cancer treatments than their patients typically choose.

Re: Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)

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Post by sidcool »

It's a habit of the internet diaspora to label a person either good or bad; binary, with no wiggle room to model the complexity of psychology.

Steve, like any other human, is a shade of grey. He did some awful things and some great ones. That's that. It neither makes him a monster nor a saint. It makes him a... Human.

Re: Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)

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Post by pkdpic »

cuteboy19 wrote: post #32
pkdpic wrote: post #9

>>> From: Steve Jobs To: Steve Jobs Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 11:08PM I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds. I do not make any of my own clothing. I speak a language I did not invent or refine. I did not discover the mathematics I use. I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate. I am mo…

No subject line?

Omg you're right, what? Come on Steve!

Re: Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)

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Post by mandeepj »

system2 wrote: post #41
spoonjim wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you think Steve Jobs was just some lucky huckster you will never ship a great product.

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were at the right place at the right time with the right resources. Now we have the internet and everyone is connected, it is harder because of the competition.

You think they did not have competition while IBM was the gorilla in front of them?
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