Steve Jobs' Best Quotes Ever

"They're babes in the woods. I think I can help turn Alvy and Ed into businessmen." -- On Pixar co-founders Alvy Ray Smith and Ed Catmull, in Time, Sept. 1, 1986

Well, he certainly succeeded at that. I really think Ed Catmull is one of the world's best examples of pure hacker/nerds becoming great businessmen because of their technical expertise. Organizations and software are very similar, it's no coincidence that the most successful tech companies are run by technologists.

"insanely great things the man has said"

What the eff? Something about dead fish and the Japanese? All right, whatever. Very insanely great, indeed. Reminds me of a certain information minister for both coherence and modesty:

http://welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/

He's a good businessman, though. He took an early lead in the PC business and turned it into this generation's Sony Walkman knockoff + an overpriced Intel machine running Unix. Oh, and Wired magazine thinks his utterances are "insanely great":

"The products suck! There's no sex in them anymore!"

Steve, I owned an Apple II. There wasn't a mother Theresa pinup calendar's worth of sex in it.