Insanely Great Quotes

“Kay himself has conceded that technological wizards generally fall into two categories: the Michelangelo types who dream of Sistine Chapels and then actually spend years building them, and the da Vincis, who have a million ideas but seldom finish anything themselves.”
― Steven Levy, Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that changed Everything

“Jobs usually had little interest in public self-analysis, but every so often he'd drop a clue to what made him tick. Once he recalled for me some of the long summers of his youth. I'm a big believer in boredom," he told me. Boredom allows one to indulge in curiosity, he explained, and "out of curiosity comes everything." The man who popularized personal computers and smartphones — machines that would draw our attention like a flame attracts gnats — worried about the future of boredom. "All the [technology] stuff is wonderful, but having nothing to do can be wonderful, too.”
― Steven Levy, Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that changed Everything

“And Steve Jobs? As far as Raskin was concerned, Jobs was no visionary, certainly not a skillful engineer, but a college dropout with an ego problem, a sponge who absorbed the ideas of others.”
― Steven Levy, Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that changed Everything

“Compared to the sophisticated digital wonders at Coyote Hill Road, the Homebrew hackers were playing with arrowheads and sticks. What the PARC people did not understand, however, was that people accustomed to performing tasks with their bare hands would consider even primitive tools like arrowheads and sticks miraculous.”
― Steven Levy, Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that changed Everything

“motley.”
― Steven Levy, Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that changed Everything

“apostasy”
― Steven Levy, Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that changed Everything

“saurian”
― Steven Levy, Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that changed Everything

“€œNo one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don't want to die to get there,”
― Steven Levy, Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that changed Everything

“come”
― Steven Levy, Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that changed Everything

“Compare it to its contemporary, the space program. The latter focused on a single mind-blowing goal, a moon landing, which was successfully met. And then the enterprise fizzled, becoming decreasingly relevant to the general public. The main benefits of the whole enterprise seem to have been Teflon, Tang, and a stack of very cool photographs. ARPA—by using its relatively meager bankroll (millions, not billions) to seed an entire culture devoted to transforming computers into instruments of communications and mental augmentation—bootstrapped a revolution that would change the way all of us worked, created, and thought.”
― Steven Levy, Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that changed Everything

“stuff is wonderful, but having nothing to do can be wonderful, too."��”
― Steven Levy, Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that changed Everything

“��The very best companies in the world are best not only because of their creativity, but because of their ability to implement.”
― Steven Levy, Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that changed Everything