Posted on 10/24/2011 10:59:42 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
Steve Jobs called long-time rival and Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates as "unimaginative" and not really a product person, according to a biography of the deceased Apple Inc chief executive.
"Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he's more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology," Jobs told author Walter Isaacson. "He just shamelessly ripped off other people's ideas."
Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO who invented and masterfully marketed ever-sleeker gadgets that transformed everyday technology, from the personal computer to the iPod and iPhone, has died at age 56. Read more
"He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger," Jobs added.
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Jobs never claimed to have invented the GUI.
Jobs never even claimed to have invented the Apple computer
We all start feeling very religious when we know the end is near. I think about that hilarious confession list Ted Kennedy sent to the Pope. Here was a guy who probably never took religion seriously after the age of 15, and then suddenly when he was stricken with brain cancer, “Uh oh. Better repent just in case.”
Also remember Jobs saying (paraphrased) “Everybody wants to live if you think about it. Even the man who wants to go to Heaven doesn’t want to die first to get there.”
Thanks for the insight, RJS950. Sorry to hear about Mr. Ritchie.
“Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal.” - Pablo Picasso
“Originality is undetected plagiarism.” - J. S. Bach
If Jobs and Gates had a TV series it would be called 'Blowhard and the Nerd'.
Yes, because dropping acid is for *winners*. Right?
Just ask Charlie Sheen how that is working out for him.
Which is a myth. People in Columbus’s time knew the world was round all right, but they grossly underestimated the size of it and assumed that Asia was the approximate distance from Europe that North America is.
Apple did not just ripoff Xerox. Apple compensated Xerox $1M for their visits. Apple made substantial extensions on every technology shown during Jobs’s visit especially on graphical interface and pointing devices. Xerox published a reasonable level of their results in the open literature also. Jobs deserves full credit for developing and marketing the Macintosh. Here is an interesting report on Xerox Parc and Apple.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/16/110516fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=1
I think Jobs should thanks Gates and MSFT for investing $150,000,000 in Apple to keep it from dying.
God? What is this God talk? After he died I read he had been a Buddhist. That must be where he gets that on off switch analogy. Nirvana ain’t suddenly so compelling when you are facing it and you are Steve Jobs. Sounds a bit like a no atheists in foxholes moment.
“Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal.” - Pablo Picasso"95% of all quotations on the Internet are bogus." - Abraham Lincoln“Originality is undetected plagiarism.” - J. S. Bach
I see the myth of medieval scientists believing in a flat earth is still around.
I had one, briefly. I rarely had to crack open the (very thin) instruction manual. Then, I got an IBM at work & bought a compatible for home. Soon, I had a shelf of books filled with arcane scribbles. I spent hundreds of hours learning DOS, and the “command line” codes for programs. IOW, I was doing the really mindless, repetitious work that the computer should have been doing. That time could have been used in more productive ways — more than making up for the additional cost of a Mac.
Also, the graphics capabilities were important to me — for such business graphics as PERT charts, CPM charts, and graphs, etc. It was either time consuming and complicated, or impossible to do these graphics with a DOS machine. Windows closed the gap — but, for at least 10 years I cursed DOS. (And, I was the “go to guy” in the office for any computer problems — most of my co-workers did not have the stoicism to suffer through the learning curves.)
There are inventors and their are innovators. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, it took Hasbro to turn it into an oven to bake nasty little cakes.
Apple did not invent the touchpad. Apple contracted with Synaptics, my hubby’s company.
Didn’t you know Vista works just fine until iTunes is installed on it. Jobs disabled and entire generation of Windows product.
“After he died I read he had been a Buddhist”
Yeh, he was big on eastern mysticism/religions.
“Nirvana ain’t suddenly so compelling when you are facing it and you are Steve Jobs. Sounds a bit like a no atheists in foxholes moment.”
Waitwaitwait. We’re attacking Buddhism here because why?
Well Jobs ripped off Kraft!!! They had already invented MAC and cheese when Jobs started using that log!!! Oh, I hurt myself sometimes with these silly remarks!!! :-)
Well Jobs ripped off Kraft!!! They had already invented MAC, and cheese, when Jobs started using that logo!!! Oh, I hurt myself sometimes with these silly remarks!!! :-)
So what? The fact remains — Columbus was the one that ventured forth, took the risks, and transformed the knowledge into a plan of action. All the rest remained sitting in their stuffed armchairs — wishing they had a pipe to puff on, while they discussed “their” idea of a small round planet. They would have to wait until after Columbus “discovered” “India”, before they had any tobacco to put in that pipe. Columbus = Jobs. All the rest = armchair quarterbacks, academics, or commentators (with 20 20 hindsight).
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