Top 18 Jean-Louis Gassee Quotes
#1. On the Intel platform, Microsoft is the defacto standard. It's the weather.
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#2. Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.
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#3. I didn't realise those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped.
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#4. 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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#5. Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive.
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#6. Advertising is saying you're good. PR is getting someone else to say you're good.
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#7. 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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#8. 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.
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#9. The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time.
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#11. Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law.
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#13. 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.
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#14. As the monkey climbs the tree, more people can see his bottom.
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#15. I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age.
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#16. When I want to do something mindless to relax, I reinstall Windows 95.
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#17. 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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