I want to see the two CEOs of RIM and (Apple CEO Steve) Jobs working together. The thought of this menage a trois is absolutely hilarious. Jean-Louis Gassee More Quotes by Jean-Louis Gassee More Quotes From Jean-Louis Gassee Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest. Jean-Louis Gassee design experience simple Advertising is saying you're good. PR is getting someone else to say you're good. Jean-Louis Gassee advertising One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope and anarchy. Jean-Louis Gassee rainbow dream order The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time. Jean-Louis Gassee valleys dollars romance The goal of the computer is to provide people with the means to extend people's minds and bodies. It is an exoskeleton that expands our human reach. Jean-Louis Gassee goal mean people You know the people who have the bumper stickers that say "Windows 95 = Mac '89"? These are the faithful, and I respect their faith, but I would like to respectfully point out that faith is dangerous. Religion kills. Jean-Louis Gassee faithful people window When an idea, a proposition, a cause is presented to me in terms that leave me no alternative but to be for it, because it's all pros and no cons, then I know I'm being conned. Jean-Louis Gassee alternatives causes ideas As the monkey climbs the tree, more people can see his bottom. Jean-Louis Gassee monkeys tree people That makes my nipples hard! Jean-Louis Gassee hard nipples Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law. Jean-Louis Gassee car law mother If you ask people in the mainstream what they want, they'll say faster and smaller and cheaper. But with that you don't get innovation. If you align yourself with the ball-breaker, high-testosterone crowd, that leads to innovation. Jean-Louis Gassee balls innovation people Don't try to lawyer me out of common sense. Jean-Louis Gassee common-sense common trying I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age. Jean-Louis Gassee cancer age years On the Intel platform, Microsoft is the defacto standard. It's the weather. Jean-Louis Gassee microsoft platforms weather When I want to do something mindless to relax, I reinstall Windows 95. Jean-Louis Gassee relax want window I didn't realise those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped. Jean-Louis Gassee handicapped realising space Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft. Jean-Louis Gassee technology two fall
