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Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs
No place on earth is more baby-boomerish than Silicon Valley, and Jobs was its avatar: a CEO who wore jeans and emitted a “reality distortion field,” a sentimental, countercultural romantic who was also a ruthless mogul, a forever-young tinkerer dedicated to erasing the old distinctions between tools and toys, work and play.
Doug Menuez • Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley 1985-2000
When I was going to school, I had a few great teachers and a lot of mediocre teachers. And the thing that probably kept me out of jail was the books. I could go and read what Aristotle or Plato wrote without an intermediary in the way. And a book was a phenomenal thing. It got right from the source to the destination without anything
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If they had been on the job, I would have gone and done something else because the opportunity wouldn't have been there. But I saw a gap in the marketplace and I said, "We should do something that lets you do bigger spreadsheets, that's faster, that takes full advantage of the IBM PC, that integrates the graphing, so you could hit one button t
... See moreJessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
“If, for some reason, we make some giant mistakes and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter sort of a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years,” he told an interviewer. “Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation.” Even thirty years later, reflecting back on the competition, Jobs cast it as ... See more