Jean-Louis Gassee quotes
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“Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.”
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“Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.”
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“When I want to do something mindless to relax, I reinstall Windows 95.”
-- Jean-Louis GasseeSource : "Geek Cheek". Interview with David Diamond, www.wired.com. May 1, 1996.
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“One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colours of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn’t dream of a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope and anarchy.”
-- Jean-Louis GasseeSource : "Apple Confidential: The Real Story of Apple Computer, Inc". Book by Owen W. Linzmayer, 1999.
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“Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law.”
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“That makes my nipples hard!”
-- Jean-Louis GasseeSource : "Let my IPO be!" by Craig Bicknell, www.wired.com. May 6, 1999.
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“I didn't realise those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped.”
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“I want to see the two CEOs of RIM and [Apple CEO Steve] Jobs working together. The thought of this ménage à trois is absolutely hilarious.”
-- Jean-Louis GasseeSource : "TECH CHRONICLES / A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle's technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech)" by Al Saracevic, Tom Abate, Ellen Lee, www.sfgate.com. June 6, 2006.
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“Advertising is saying you're good. PR is getting someone else to say you're good.”
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“As the monkey climbs the tree, more people can see his bottom.”
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“The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time.”
-- Jean-Louis GasseeSource : "Geek Cheek" by David Diamond, www.wired.com. May 1, 1996.
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“The goal of the computer is to provide people with the means to extend people's minds and bodies. It is an exoskeleton that expands our human reach.”
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“If you ask people in the mainstream what they want, they'll say faster and smaller and cheaper. But with that you don't get innovation. If you align yourself with the ball-breaker, high-testosterone crowd, that leads to innovation.”
-- Jean-Louis GasseeSource : "Geek cheek" by David Diamond, www.wired.com. April 1, 1996.
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“I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age.”
-- Jean-Louis GasseeSource : "Geek Cheek" by David Diamond, www.wired.com. May 1, 1996.
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“When an idea, a proposition, a cause is presented to me in terms that leave me no alternative but to be for it, because it's all pros and no cons, then I know I'm being conned.”
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“You know the people who have the bumper stickers that say "Windows 95 = Mac '89"? These are the faithful, and I respect their faith, but I would like to respectfully point out that faith is dangerous. Religion kills.”
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“Don't try to lawyer me out of common sense.”
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“On the Intel platform, Microsoft is the defacto standard. It's the weather.”
-- Jean-Louis Gassee
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