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Re:Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You by podperson on Thursday July 28, 2011 @08:09PM (#2819576)
I think it's interesting that Steve Jobs has earned this much credit with most of us (I think most). He has a history of saying stuff that is either clearly true at the time or turns out to have been surprisingly frank in hindsight.

My guess is he was shooting from the hip and then discovered that it was a much bigger pain in the ass than he realized.

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Re:Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You by Getahobby on Thursday July 28, 2011 @09:22PM (#2819741)
The right thing to do when you make a promise without fully thinking it through is to still follow through with it, no matter how big of a pain in the ass it turns out to be. This is how people (should) learn to keep their mouth shut and stop over promising and under delivering. Jobs is not one to over promise so this instance is interesting.

edit: wow, lots of grammar errors.

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Re:Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You by sigzero on Thursday July 28, 2011 @09:48PM (#2819823)
A business cannot run that way.
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Re:Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You by RyanMcGreal on Thursday July 28, 2011 @10:29PM (#2819909)
A business also cannot be run by its CEO shooting from the hip.
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Re:Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You by etha on Thursday July 28, 2011 @11:12PM (#2820002)
Some do. Epic Systems, for example, is quite well known for this attitude.
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