Steve Jobs? Andy Hertzfeld? Nicholas Callaway? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: Developing and releasing a complicated product like a personal computer is an arduous task. Prominent business executive Steve Jobs employed the following adage to motivate the group designing the innovative Macintosh computer: Real Artists Ship Would you please explore this saying? Quote Investigator: Andy Hertzfeld …
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Point of View Is Worth 80 IQ Points
Alan Kay? Andy Hertzfeld? Michael Eisner? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: The Roman numeral system is powerful enough to express numbers such as 1776 (MDCCLXXVI), but the system is terrible for performing arithmetic operations such as division. A fresh perspective is required. A positional system such as the decimal numeral system is dramatically superior for computation. …