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As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention. Steve Jobs was saying, "Don't pay attention to all that stuff. Pay attention to the product you've got in your hand."

Alex Gibney

Hands, Attention, Pay

"Filmmaker Alex Gibney on Steve Jobs, storyteller". Interview with Michael O'Sullivan, www.washingtonpost.com. September 5, 2015.

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As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention.

Alex Gibney

Powerful, Government, Attention

Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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What made so many people so upset when Steve Jobs died was that he was a kind of combination of daddy - in this relationship between the machine and ourselves - and also he was our guide. He was the one who led us to look into the mirror. He created these devices that became extensions of ourselves. Suddenly, he wasn't going to hold our hand as we went from product to product, which became increasingly about who we were.

Alex Gibney

Jobs, Mirrors, Hands

Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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In a busy world, even as information is moving so rapidly, we have to learn who to trust in that regard even as we ourselves have to become more critical of the people who we want to trust. It's a weird situation.

Alex Gibney

Moving, People, World

"Director Alex Gibney Talks WE STEAL SECRETS: THE STORY OF WIKILEAKS and His Next Documentary LANCE ARMSTRONG: THE ROAD BACK". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 18, 2013.

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I don't think Steve [Jobs] started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer as a bicycle for the human mind - I think that was something he believed.

Alex Gibney

Jobs, Thinking, Apples

Source: www.salon.com

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Whether or not he came to believe it - so many people, when they have a mission, come to believe something in a way that may have started out as a slogan. You know, L. Ron Hubbard, not to make a random comparison, started Scientology as a scam.

Alex Gibney

Believe, People, Scams

"Alex Gibney on Steve Jobs: 'He was ruthless when it came to a beveled edge for the iPhone - but paying workers more in China? No way'". Interview with Andrew O'Hehir, www.salon.com. September 4, 2015.

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Steve Jobs did not start started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer as a bicycle for the human mind - I think that was something he believed. He believed in making people comfortable with these machines, which is why he spent so much time thinking about how to design them a certain way, how to make them so user-friendly and interactive, and why he spent so much time studying the Zeitgeist.

Alex Gibney

Jobs, Thinking, Ideas

Source: www.salon.com

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Jobs would have ever have asserted that Bill Gates was not serious about technology. He was a huge pioneer in that world, albeit doing something quite different in approach from what Steve did. He was dismissive of Gates' foundation work as something he did to make himself feel better.

Alex Gibney

Jobs, Feel Better, Technology

Source: www.salon.com

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Bill Gates, who is the classic computer nerd, as opposed to Steve who is, like the coolest guy in the world. And who is really doing things to make the world a better place?

Alex Gibney

Guy, Nerd, Bills

Source: www.salon.com

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The funny thing about being Catholic, and I was raised Catholic, is that you identify with the Church, just as part of your character. Nevermind what you believe, it's just who you are.

Alex Gibney

Believe, Character, Funny Things

Source: collider.com

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It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.

Alex Gibney

People, Easy, Analysts

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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I think many articles in the New Yorker have a strong point of view, but they are so rigorously fact-checked. I wouldn't call them objective, but they feel fair.

Alex Gibney

Strong, Thinking, Views

Source: www.salon.com

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Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.

Alex Gibney

Suicide, Thinking, Opinion

Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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