Re:Steve Jobs At Home in 1982
by spolsky on Friday December 14, 2007 @04:23PM
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Boy, I remember seeing that picture when it came out in 1982... it really influenced me.
The article that accompanied it was about how Apple computer had grown so fast that the founders didn't even have time to spend their money and buy furniture. Steve Job's reformulation of this story, as if he were some kind of zen minimalist monk in the old days, sure sounds better than what he said at the time, which was way more prosaic -- something like "I just bought a big house so I would have some place to live and Apple has kept me so busy I haven't had time to buy furniture."
Re:Steve Jobs At Home in 1982
by dcurtis on Friday December 14, 2007 @04:49PM
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Is this that historically-protected house that Steve was trying to give away a few years ago? He described it as "one of the biggest abominations of a house I've ever seen."
Re:Steve Jobs At Home in 1982
by mynameishere on Friday December 14, 2007 @04:30PM
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I don't think so. Example: Most of the things I have are replacements for what would otherwise be services. My oven and refrigerator and car and local grocery store combine to replace a maid, or 3-times-daily restaurant visits...both very expensive.
Re:Steve Jobs At Home in 1982
by mynameishere on Saturday December 15, 2007 @01:37AM
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Well, it was one of those situations where I thought, "Hmm, should I put a footnote [1] in this to make myself perfectly clear? Then I thought, why skew my parallel grammatical structure, howsoever already imperfect?"
[1] I don't actually own the grocery store. The word "my" changed from "that which I possess" to "that thing whose utility I am habituated".
The article that accompanied it was about how Apple computer had grown so fast that the founders didn't even have time to spend their money and buy furniture. Steve Job's reformulation of this story, as if he were some kind of zen minimalist monk in the old days, sure sounds better than what he said at the time, which was way more prosaic -- something like "I just bought a big house so I would have some place to live and Apple has kept me so busy I haven't had time to buy furniture."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/quotes
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=ed6d5...
[1] I don't actually own the grocery store. The word "my" changed from "that which I possess" to "that thing whose utility I am habituated".
Maybe a nice IBM PC that runs DOS... ;-)