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  • The grandiose plans of what Macintosh was gonna be was just so far out of whack with the truth of what the product was doing. And the truth of what the product was doing was not horrible, it was salvageable. But the gap between the two was just so unthinkable that somebody had to do something, and that somebody was John Sculley.

    Two   Gaps   Macintosh  
  • And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople get ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report.

    Funny   Business   Humor  
  • The two most important things about people on a revolutionary team are their ability and passion. Their educational level or work experience is meaningless--most of the engineers who did ground-breaking work of the Macintosh design didn't even graduate from college.

  • I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end".

    Apples   Might   Computer  
  • The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There is no evidence that people want to use these things.

    People   Use   Want  
    Review of the Macintosh, The San Francisco Examiner, February 19, 1984.
  • Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous, fresh as a new peach, yet scrawling on a yellow legal pad like an old maid in a Victorian romance.

    Years   Here I Am   Two  
    Stephen King (2005). “The Colorado Kid”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
  • If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today.

  • When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

    "Steve Jobs quotes: the man in his own words", www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2011.
  • I was asked to do TV ads for Macintosh. Nowadays, I think anybody would jump at that but, at the time, it didn't feel appropriate for what I was trying to stand for.

    Thinking   Trying   Tvs  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

  • If Macintosh hadn't been successful, then I should have just thrown in the towel, because my vision of the whole industry would have been totally wrong.

    "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.
  • 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 out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

  • Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

    "Fortune" Magazine, November 9, 1998.
  • Look back to the old days: people bought an MS DOS machine and struggled with it for weeks to bring it up to speed. Then Apple created Macintosh, struggled a bit with it, but eventually succeeded. Then it went into other businesses. If your company truly wants to change the world, it would make these problems go away for customers.

    PayLane Interview, blog.paylane.com.
  • The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people

    Team   Apples   People  
  • 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 also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

    Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.25, Prabhat Prakashan
  • The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.

    Top 10   May   Macintosh  
  • The world is a big place. There are lots of smart people in it. Entrepreneurs are kidding themselves if they think they have any kind of monopoly on knowledge. And, sure as I'm a Macintosh user, on the same day that an entrepreneur tells this lie, the venture capitalist will have met with another company that's doing the same thing.

    Smart   Lying   Thinking  
  • The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

    BusinessWeek, November 26, 1984.
  • The boards had to be beautiful in Steve [Jobs]'s eyes when you looked at them, even though when he created the Macintosh he made it impossible for a consumer to get in the box, because he didn't want people tampering with anything.

    Beautiful   Jobs   Eye  
    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • Everything that I've learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles: Unix: You think it won't work, but if you find the right wizard, they can make it work. Macintosh: You think it will work, but it won't. PC/Windows: You think it won't work, and it won't.

    Philip Greenspun (1999). “Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing”, p.202, Morgan Kaufmann
  • Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

    Life   Fear   Failure  
    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • 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 of other woman that Macintosh is.

    Stress   Mean   Science  
  • The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one.

    People   Use   Computer  
  • 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 do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

    "Fortune" Magazine, November 9, 1998.
  • As for the Sun mouse, I'm not a big multi-button mouse fan, because I just can't remember which button to push when. I rather like the Macintosh system of using four modifier keys with the mouse.

    Keys   Buttons   Fans  
  • I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door.

  • I think Apple's revenge is just the fact that Windows, you know, PCs all became Macintoshes in a way.

    "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.
  • My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.

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