Posted on 10/08/2011 4:16:00 PM PDT by Hojczyk
4. "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. 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."
3. "Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people."
2. "Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle."
1. "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish."
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So your point is, LSD is ok because other legal drugs are worse? First of all, I doubt your premise is correct, and if it was, it has nothing to do with whether it’s a good idea to encourage LSD use.
LSD was legal until the end of the 1960s. (Imagine this discussion in 1965.) Then your beloved government capriciously delegalized it, deciding FOR YOU what’s good for you, deciding with apparently your slavish consent. When Prozac gets illegalized, as it should, will you instantly approve as well? There are reasons for and against hallucogenic, mind altering substances, many if not most, found in nature, and used by people for thousands of years, and modern bureaucracies, politicians and believers in the wisdom of fickle, corrupt governments, such as you seem to be, have nothing to teach me or the rest of humanity about them, good or bad, even if they are indeed B-A-D! I trust the wisdom of thinkers and philosophers who have tried or not tried these substances.
I didn’t answer your question, or challenge as it were, and I didn’t mean to offend you, sorry.
I think that Steve Jobs’ point about acid was not to encourage the general use of LSD (nor was it my point), but to suggest that an attempt at temporary legal or not mind alteration would have done Bill Gates some good in helping to expand his intellectual territory, his imagination, and knowing what I know about Bill Gates (he’s a bridge player, for Chrissakes!) I agree.
I wasn't offended. You make me laugh more than just about anyone around here.
I can’t disagree with what you said having seen acid casualties myself,
though I suspect that Jobs was referring to the
latter day unimaginative Gates, the Buffett bridge partner!
Great point — thanks for such a clarifying comment.
As for prozac, you seem to have a thing about it, it's your catch-all straw man. One of my best friends from college jumped off a building in Manhattan a few weeks after being put on prozac back around 1990 or so. He left two baby girls. I am familiar with Prozac. Maybe you went through something similar and can't let it go, I don't know, but, again, it has nothing to do with acid.
Did he say “become a monthly Donor to Free Republic”?
Must have been #26.
Congress should live by No. 9. Having bills that are 315,000 words in length in sheer idiocy.
Prozac a drug, even if legal, LSD is a drug, prior to 1970 legal. It could have, might have, was considered to become a medication, then who knows. Like Prozac it isn’t found in nature, it is a synthetic man made substance. I’m not hung up on Prozac at all, only heard of a few known people who suffered from its effects, while you have a more personal experience of the same sort. It is simply a convenient comparison object, and not all comparison objects are straw men. The phrase straw man itself has become a ‘straw man’, if you catch my drift.
The states and the feds regulate medications, and it’s good until they go over the top, as FDA often does, but who is to regulate them?
In all it’s a tough issue, legalization of currently illegal drugs, and I have no idea what is right, what isn’t, but the legality or otherwise of Steve Jobs’ use of LSD is of no relevance to me, and I won’t condemn him if he had used it.
“You’ll know what’s in the bill when it’s passed”
He went in the right direction there. Man evolves a product over a long span of time, gradually improving it until it’s elegant.
God, able to look into the far future, sees the end product at the beginning and just makes that one.
He does make the point...most companies today are in the business of making money, instead of being in the business of making things, the things to them are just a means to an end.
Apple was infiltrating schools long before Clinton.
As was IBM well before Apple, at the college level. They rented their mainframes to the future .edu's at cut rates, so that the students would learn on them and demand IBM when they got out into the world. Gotta eat the BUNCH's lunch, don't you know.
Interesting....Steve Jobs already toured the Third World back in the '70s, and made his own conclusion.
How quaint, how old fashioned. It’s been said that the culprits of the money/costs focus have been elite business schools, and in particular Harvard and its graduate in the 40s Robert McNamara.
To focus on products and service these days is radical, and I’ve worked for companies, computer and otherwise, where CEOs who did just that were ousted and replaced by penny pinching doofi, who started out (and ended) with layoffs.
One such company, a software concern, was close to a $ billion in revenue, when it stumbled on a key product update, and the CEO co-founder who was promising to lead it to five billion in five years was ousted, replaced by one knocklehead then another, customers lost confidence in the company, it almost went broke, but the 2nd knocklehead finally reached a billion in a dozen years of penny pinching!
Who was Bill Gates for?
Your link compares Eve's apple to Jobs's:
Nothing exemplifies that ability more than Apple's early logo, which slapped a rainbow on the very archetype of human fallenness and failurethe bitten fruitand turned it into a sign of promise and progress. That bitten apple was just one of Steve Jobs's many touches of genius, capturing the promise of technology in a single glance.
jonathan mak |
What the Dormouse Said
by John Markoff
He shows how almost every feature of today's home computers, from the graphical interface to the mouse control, can be traced to two Stanford research facilities that were completely immersed in the counterculture.
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