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> [Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-louis-gassee/simple-is-hard-easy-is-harder-invisible-is-hardest/)

[Jean-Louis Gassee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-louis-gassee/)

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## More by Jean-Louis Gassee

> [The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-louis-gassee/the-romance-of-silicon-valley-was-about-money-excuse-me-about/)

[Jean-Louis Gassee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-louis-gassee/)

> [I didn't realise those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-louis-gassee/i-didn-t-realise-those-spaces-were-for-the-emotionally-handicapped/)

[Jean-Louis Gassee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-louis-gassee/)

> [Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-louis-gassee/overall-os-2-s-problems-fall-into-two-categories-ibm-and-microsoft/)

[Jean-Louis Gassee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-louis-gassee/)

> [One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colors of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-louis-gassee/one-of-the-deep-mysteries-to-me-is-our-logo-the-symbol-of-lust-and/)

[Jean-Louis Gassee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-louis-gassee/)

> [Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-louis-gassee/simple-is-hard-easy-is-harder-invisible-is-hardest/)

[Jean-Louis Gassee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-louis-gassee/)

> [You know the people who have the bumper stickers that say "Windows 95 = Mac '89"? These are the faithful, and I respect their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-louis-gassee/you-know-the-people-who-have-the-bumper-stickers-that-say-windows-95/)

[Jean-Louis Gassee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-louis-gassee/)

> [As the monkey climbs the tree, more people can see his bottom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-louis-gassee/as-the-monkey-climbs-the-tree-more-people-can-see-his-bottom/)

[Jean-Louis Gassee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-louis-gassee/)

> [On the Intel platform, Microsoft is the defacto standard. It's the weather.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-louis-gassee/on-the-intel-platform-microsoft-is-the-defacto-standard-it-s-the/)

[Jean-Louis Gassee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-louis-gassee/)

> [I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-louis-gassee/i-worked-22-years-in-the-industry-and-i-noticed-that-operating/)

[Jean-Louis Gassee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-louis-gassee/)

> [Don't try to lawyer me out of common sense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-louis-gassee/don-t-try-to-lawyer-me-out-of-common-sense/)

[Jean-Louis Gassee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-louis-gassee/)

> [If you ask people in the mainstream what they want, they'll say faster and smaller and cheaper. But with that you don't get innovation.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-louis-gassee/if-you-ask-people-in-the-mainstream-what-they-want-they-ll-say-faster/)

[Jean-Louis Gassee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-louis-gassee/)

> [When an idea, a proposition, a cause is presented to me in terms that leave me no alternative but to be for it, because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-louis-gassee/when-an-idea-a-proposition-a-cause-is-presented-to-me-in-terms-that/)

[Jean-Louis Gassee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-louis-gassee/)

> [I want to see the two CEOs of RIM and (Apple CEO Steve) Jobs working together. The thought of this menage a trois is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-louis-gassee/i-want-to-see-the-two-ceos-of-rim-and-apple-ceo-steve-jobs-working/)

[Jean-Louis Gassee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-louis-gassee/)

> [The goal of the computer is to provide people with the means to extend people's minds and bodies. It is an exoskeleton that expands…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-louis-gassee/the-goal-of-the-computer-is-to-provide-people-with-the-means-to/)

[Jean-Louis Gassee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-louis-gassee/)

> [Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-louis-gassee/yet-you-would-not-drive-a-car-with-your-mouth-unless-you-are-my/)

[Jean-Louis Gassee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-louis-gassee/)

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