Classic quotes from Steve Jobs: competitors from Dow Jones)

About competitors
PLAYBOY: Do you mean that people who produce Junior PCs have no pride in their products?

If there is one, they will not produce Junior PCs. [Playboy magazine, February 1, 1985]
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Some people say that we should put IBM PCs on every desk in the United States to improve production efficiency. This method is useless. The special spell you must learn this time is "/Q-Z" and this kind of thing. Most popular Text ProcessingProgramWordStar's manual has a thick 400 pages. To write a novel, you must first read the novel, which makes it very esoteric for most people to read. They do not know more about/Q-Z than about Morse code. This is the essence of Macintosh. [Playboy magazine, February 1, 1985]
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Microsoft has no taste at all. They have no taste. In addition, I am not talking about this from an early perspective, but from a big perspective, because they do not consider original ideas or inject any culture into products.
I am very sad, not because of Microsoft's success-I have no opinion on their success. Their success deserves a lot. I have an opinion that what they make is really only a three-stream product. [Nerd's victory-Microsoft's family history, 1996]
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I sincerely wish him all the best. I just think he and Microsoft are a little narrow. When he was young, he would have taken the phantom medicine or been to a place where the hippies are piled up. [The New York Times, January 12, 1997]

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries