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Tonight we were sitting around the dining room table feeding our 4 month old some food by spoon (which is a new thing) and had the Pure 80’s album playing on the iPod and living room stereo listening to Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love, thoroughly enjoying one another when my dear beautiful 10 year old said, “I’ve heard this song before; I like these songs from the olden times.”
Wow!
I feel old now. My bride and I laughed so hard I nearly farted. Well, okay. I farted. It was that funny.
Man, talk about childish banter! Over the past few decades, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have been at each other’s throats for one reason or the other – and now, at the incidentally sold-out The Wall Street Journal D Conference, they will be “unscripted” and “unrehearsed” as they come together and make history for the annual technology and media executive’s brain storming session. This should be good – after all, who WOULDN’T taunt them in front of the other about the vicious statements made about each other over the decades (and now they sit together “united” for the good of technology – right). Here’s some interesting quotes found ’round the internet:
Gates on Jobs:
“The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.”
– Business Week, Nov. 26, 1984
“The Macintosh was truly unique, but I personally don’t understand what is so unique about Steve’s new computer (NeXT).”
– Fortune, Oct. 9, 1989
“In terms of public relations, yes, Steve is the most successful in the industry. But he does it by saying how crummy everyone else is.”
– Fortune, Oct. 9, 1989
“We think Apple makes a huge contribution to the computer industry.”
– MacWorld, 1997, via satellite video broadcast, announcing a patent settlement, $150 million investment in Apple and a promise to maintain support for Microsoft Office for the Mac.
“Do you really think Steve Jobs has got anything there? I know his technology, it’s nothing but warmed-over Unix.”
– Attributed in On the Firing Line: My 500 Days at Apple, by Gil Amelio, 1998
“I don’t think the success of the iPod can continue in the long term, however good Apple may be…. I think you can draw parallels here with the computer. Apple was once extremely strong with its Macintosh and graphic user interface, like with the iPod today, and then lost its position.”
– Frankfurter Allgemeine, May 2005
Jobs on Gates:
“Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don’t know any better.”
– Rolling Stone, June 16, 1994
“The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That’s over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it’s going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.”
– “Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing”, Wired magazine, Feb. 1996
“I am saddened, not by Microsoft’s success — I have no problem with their success. They’ve earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.”
– Triumph of the Nerds, PBS documentary, 1996 (Ed. note: According to an Aug. 8, 1997 New York Times story, Jobs later called Gates to apologize for his comments in the film.)
“I wish (Bill Gates) the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.”
– The New York Times, 1997
“Apple has to move beyond the point of view that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose.”
– Time magazine, August 18, 1997
“Here’s something Microsoft will never be able to rip off.”
– Mac World Expo, 2007, introducing the iPhone
If the good Lord had intended us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented roller-skates.
Homestar Runner has to be the all time coolest Internet cartoon ever made! Here’s a video on YouTube with the “founders” who fell into their dream job:
Sweet stuff, yo!
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