Jean-Louis Gassee Quotes

• Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Simple, Design, Experience

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• Advertising is saying you're good. PR is getting someone else to say you're good.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Advertising

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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 colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope and anarchy.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Dream, Order, Rainbow

  "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.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Mother, Law, Car

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• As the monkey climbs the tree, more people can see his bottom.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  People, Tree, Monkeys

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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 Gassee

  Romance, Dollars, Valleys

  "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.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Mean, People, Goal

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• I want to see the two CEOs of RIM and (Apple CEO Steve) Jobs working together. The thought of this menage a trois is absolutely hilarious.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Jobs, Two, Apples

  "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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• When I want to do something mindless to relax, I reinstall Windows 95.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Relax, Want, Window

  "Geek Cheek". Interview with David Diamond, www.wired.com. May 1, 1996.

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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 Gassee

  People, Innovation, Balls

  "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 Gassee

  Cancer, Years, Age

  "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.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Ideas, Alternatives, Causes

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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.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  People, Faithful, Window

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• That makes my nipples hard!

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Nipples, Hard

  "Let my IPO be!" by Craig Bicknell, www.wired.com. May 6, 1999.

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• Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Fall, Technology, Two

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• Don't try to lawyer me out of common sense.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Common Sense, Trying, Common

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• On the Intel platform, Microsoft is the defacto standard. It's the weather.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Weather, Microsoft, Platforms

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• I didn't realise those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Space, Realising, Handicapped

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