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- I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Playboy, September 1987
- The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
- In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
- As the networks evolve, so do my opinions toward them, and my divergent feelings bring out conflicting points of view. In advance, I apologize to those who expect a consistent position from me.
- Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil, 1995
- Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries.
- Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil, 1995
- I sense an insatiable demand for connectivity. Maybe all these people have discovered important uses for the Internet. Perhaps some of them feel hungry for a community that our real neighborhoods don't deliver. At least a few must wonder what the big deal is.
- Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil, 1995
- Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page thorough a real book.
- Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil, 1995
- Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden
- No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.
- Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil, 1995
- A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.
- Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil, 1995
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