#macintosh

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

#behind #clear #create #doing #force

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

#anymore #end #ever #everyone #experience

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

#any #code #going #learn #like

Everything is important- that success is in the details. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#ileadership #mac #macintosh #mac

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

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#first #i #machine #macintosh #minute

One of the talents of the [late] great Steve Jobs is that he [knew] how to design Medusa-like products. While every Macintosh model has had flaws (some more than others), most of them have has a sexiness and a design sensibility that has turned many consumers into instant converts. Macintosh owners upgrade far more often than most computer users for precisely this reason.” (p.98) ↗

— Seth Godin

#macintosh #medusa #steve-jobs #talent #upgrade

You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#ileadership #leadership #mac #macintosh #leadership

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

#ileadership #mac #macintosh #life

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 to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#automatic #car #concept #drive #how

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

#another #bulb #computer #crude #day