Steve Jobs: IBT lists 20 top quotes. Applications to #Occupy movement seem obvious.

[vets74]

To some extend every one of these statements about Apple and about work generally applies to Occupy Wall Street.

A few seem designed for the #Occupy project.

-- "My model for business is the Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other's kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people."

-- “Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

-- "In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service."

-- "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?" -- how Jobs got John Sculley out of Pepsi to run Apple


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We did one piece of work that helped out Apple when they really needed it. The II+ and IIc didn't have a good authoring system, which depended on having access to 6502/65c02 chip hardware interrupts. I went out to Arizona and begged a collection of engineers' notes on what all they had onto those chips.

That resulted in the P.A.S.S. System, for one. Pre-loaded image frames, the hangman's game two-line data entry field at the bottom, and cleaner use of the two floppy disks. P.A.S.S. and its cousins went out for 8,000,000 licensed software sales -- probably three times as many bootlegged.

I got the model trash can that was used for the Mac screen icon as their thank-you gift. Along with the usual high-end Mac and bag and stuff. But the trash can is what still lights up my nerd-lights.

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Btw: the Jobs-haters online come across as self-parodies. The guy was a genius.

Too bad he smoked. We'll miss him.

[meegbear]

1. So anyone who doesn't agree with your premsie are "Jobs-haters"?

[vets74]

4. What have you said that is memorable ?

Or built ?

[Indydem]

2. I am an Apple fan.

But I also recognize the beast that Apple is.

They are the biggest, most profitable corporation on the planet.

They got that way be exploiting everyone from engineers who worked long hours under abusive circumstances to the child labor they utilize in the mining of raw resources for their products. Not to mention everyone in between.

I still don't understand why so many on the DU think this guy is so awesome.

If the President of Exxon Mobile died, would anyone be putting together a list of HIS quotes or lamenting over how he was so innovative?

It is this weird dichotomy that I see here,and I can never seem to rationalize it in my mind.

[vets74]

6. They "got that way" super-big by selling first-rate products.

Profitability goes to exploiting people, sure thing.

"Suicide factories" and saying that Apple is in the mining business... over the top.

[Romulox]

3. Where are the quotes about the Chinese suicide factories?

:silly:

[tridim]

5. Ugh

:puke:

[Sarah Ibarruri]

7. Here's my favorite (because it reminds me of the Occupy Wall Street movement)!!!

-- “Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

[vets74]

8. Yes, indeed.

This works for that:

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.

-- Steve Jobs