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At the time, all sorts of people were telling me that I needed to put quotes on the back cover of the book. So I asked Steve Jobs if he’d give me one. Various q
by spdy 15y ago
At the time, all sorts of people were telling me that I needed to put quotes on the back cover of the book. So I asked Steve Jobs if he’d give me one. Various questions came back. But eventually Steve said, “Isaac Newton didn’t have back-cover quotes; why do you want them?”
This tells so much about Jobs. Everybody is doing X but we do Y. Think different.
- metra 15y agoI can't help but think that maybe Jobs just didn't have a positive review of the book. I've never read it but the most helpful reviews on Amazon are not favorable. http://www.amazon.com/New-Kind-Science-Stephen-Wolfram/dp/1579550088 http://www.amazon.com/New-Kind-Science-Stephen-Wolfram/dp/15...
- snorkel 15y ago... making this perhaps the most genius refusal, suggestion, and compliment all wrapped into one.
- pkamb 15y agoSame for Woz's book: "I was a little disappointed — Steve Jobs had indicated he'd write a foreword. But he'd never written a foreword before and I said, "Just write what we were like back then." "We sent him the book and he said, "Oh, I saw some excerpts, and I'm going to decline writing the foreword." I don't know why because I'm nice to him, so there must have been something he didn't like." http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002929498_wozqa14.html http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/200...