Explore popular quotes and sayings by Jean-Louis Gassee.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Jean-Louis Gassée is a business executive. He is best known as a former executive at Apple Computer, where he worked from 1981 to 1990. He also founded Be Inc., creators of the BeOS computer operating system. After leaving Be, he became Chairman of PalmSource, Inc. in November 2004.
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.
Don't try to lawyer me out of common sense.
When I want to do something mindless to relax, I reinstall Windows 95.
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.
That makes my nipples hard!
Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law.
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.
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.
On the Intel platform, Microsoft is the defacto standard. It's the weather.
Advertising is saying you're good. PR is getting someone else to say you're good.
As the monkey climbs the tree, more people can see his bottom.
Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.
I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age.
Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.
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.
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.
I didn't realise those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped.
The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time.