Re:Playboy Magazine interview with 29-year-old Steve Jobs
by drinian on Saturday January 31, 2009 @09:40PM
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Ironic, considering that Jobs was himself asked to leave Apple a few years later. (And, of course, came back to re-conquer Apple from NeXT).
Re:Playboy Magazine interview with 29-year-old Steve Jobs
by unalone on Sunday February 01, 2009 @10:46AM
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I like how the conclusion to that (These are the people America should be looking up to), along with several other comments of his, fit in nicely with the start-up scene. As another comment says, he says some things here that get used by 37signals for their sales pitch.
"You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that. Polaroid did that for some years, but eventually Dr. Land, one of those brilliant troublemakers, was asked to leave his own company—which is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard of. So Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision."
Googling on Land's color vision work:
http://www.greatreality.com/Color2Color.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retinex
Neat.