The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel – one that reads like a mystery to most people. They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.
More Steve Jobs Quotes
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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
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
Oscar Wilde
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Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don’t have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don’t have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.
Steve Jobs
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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
C.S. Lewis
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Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
