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Macintosh Quotes by Steve Jobs
- Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who…
- Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try…
- I just had a romance that I really care about, a lot-I mean, a lot-go up in smoke. Because of the stress, and the sort…
- If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC…
- Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to…
- Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics…
- This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet…
- The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear…
- I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked…
- The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one…
More Macintosh Quotes
- To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and… — Bill Gates
- By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run… — Lawrence Lessig
- My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible. — Buffy Sainte-Marie
- The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the… — Andy Hertzfeld
- The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There is no evidence that people want to use these things. — John C. Dvorak
- If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today. — Jef Raskin
- The grandiose plans of what Macintosh was gonna be was just so far out of whack with the truth of what the… — Chris Espinosa
- We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do… — Andy Hertzfeld
- Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability… — Heidi Julavits
- I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century… — Douglas Adams
- I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display. — Bill Joy
- Everything that I've learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles: Unix: You think it won't work, but… — Philip Greenspun