Steve Jobs' Best Quotes Ever

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Post by r0b » Thu, Mar 15, 2007, 9:36 PM UTC

Re: Steve Jobs' Best Quotes Ever

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Post by far33d » Thu, Mar 15, 2007, 9:54 PM UTC

"They're babes in the woods. I think I can help turn Alvy and Ed into businessmen." -- On Pixar co-founders Alvy Ray Smith and Ed Catmull, in Time, Sept. 1, 1986

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.

Re: Steve Jobs' Best Quotes Ever

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Post by mynameishere » Fri, Mar 16, 2007, 2:17 AM UTC

"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.