Macintosh Quotes

• 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

  Philosophical, Artist, Best Job

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.25, Prabhat Prakashan

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• 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".

  Douglas Adams

  Apples, Might, Computer

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

  Bill Gates

  Interesting, Generations, Done

  BusinessWeek, November 26, 1984.

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• Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Life Changing, Hard Work

  "Steve Jobs quotes: the man in his own words", www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2011.

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• 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

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Team, Apples, People

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• By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Running, Fall, Apples

  "May the Source Be With You" by Lawrence Lessig, www.wired.com. December 1, 2001.

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• You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.41, Prabhat Prakashan

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• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Fear, Failure

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Leadership, Jobs

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• We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Couple, Writing, Years

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• My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Machines, Firsts, Minutes

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• I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display.

  Bill Joy

  Thinking, Prove, Display

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• Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Jobs, Apples, Ears

  "They call me a criminal" by Kevin Mitnick, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2000.

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• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Time, Money

  "Fortune" Magazine, November 9, 1998.

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• You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Trust, Karma

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

  Steve Jobs

  Sleep, Night, Best Job

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.29, Prabhat Prakashan

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• It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

  Steve Jobs

  Best Job, People, Innovation

  "Fortune" Magazine, November 9, 1998.

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

  John C. Dvorak

  People, Use, Want

  Review of the Macintosh, The San Francisco Examiner, February 19, 1984.

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• 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 wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Running, War

  "Steve Jobs obituary" by Jack Schofield, October 5, 2011.

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• Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.

  Melinda Gates

  Microsoft, Products

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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 our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Years, Intellectual

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• 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

  Beautiful, Wall, Best Job

  "Steve Jobs quotes: the man in his own words", www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2011.

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• 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 that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

  Steve Jobs

  Writing, People, Pages

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, genius.com. February 1, 1985.

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• 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 on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Hands, Release

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous.

  Steve Jobs

  Apples, Church, Loyal

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.20, Prabhat Prakashan

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