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1980: Steve Jobs Speech at McKenna
In this videos Steve Jobs was only 25 years old. The video was gifted to Computer History Museum by Regis McKenna.
HIGHLIGHTS
- 1:12 : On 3rd grader using Apple Computers: “They beat me in most of the games in it.”
- 2:27 : On the Apple Computer: “We had absolutely no idea what people were going to do with these things when we started out.”
- 5:23 : Scientific American study on the efficiency of Locomotion: “Man is a toolmaker.. has the ability to make a tool to amplify an inherent ability that he has”
- 9:09 : So someone can buy a computer system and knows nothing about it and directly attack their problem without learning how to program a computer.
- 15:21 : Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. And that wasn’t just a bullshit slogan. It actually was really what we’ve been stiving for. And the apple scene symbolizes that.
- 22:00 : Why people have come to apple, certainly wasn’t for the salary. Lot of people came to apple and took 50% cuts in salary. We attract people on the basis of an opp to work your butt off and get something done right get it out of the door without getting something screwed up.
