This isn’t so far from the truth. NeXT era Steve Jobs: I had three or four people who kept bugging me that I had my rear over the Xerox PARC and see what they

This isn’t so far from the truth. NeXT era Steve Jobs: I had three or four people who kept bugging me that I had my rear over the Xerox PARC and see what they were doing, and so I finally went over there. They were very kind and they showed what they were working on, and they showed me three things. But I was so blinded by the first one that I didn’t even really see the other two. One of the things they showed me was object-oriented programming. They showed me that, but I didn’t even see that. The other one they showed me was really a networked computer system, there were a hundred Alto computers, all networked, using e-mail, etc., etc.. I didn’t even see that. I was so blinded by the first thing they’d shown me, which was the graphical user interface. I thought it was the best thing I had ever seen in my life. The simplest way to explain NeXT is Steve getting back to those other two things after turning the first thing into a product with the Macintosh.