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Cryptic but so true. I think part of the reason people revered Steve Jobs so much is that he took the time to talk about the vision and passion of making great
by jayfuerstenberg 15y ago
Cryptic but so true.
I think part of the reason people revered Steve Jobs so much is that he took the time to talk about the vision and passion of making great things and why we'll love them.
There really is no Reality Distortion Field, just great products worth talking about.
- espeed 15y agoWhy do you think it's cryptic?
- jayfuerstenberg 15y agoJust linguistically. The going back between hard and simple. There probably isn't a better way to articulate it oddly enough. :)
- espeed 15y agoRick Hickey recently gave a talk entitled "Simple Made Easy" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3135185 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3135185) where he contrasts simple and easy. Jobs' quote jumped out at me because I was thinking about this concept the other day while on a run, after watching Hickey's talk. Simplicity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicity) is the result of understanding. Einstein knew this. He spent the last 30 years of his life chasing a simple equation, "perhaps no more than one inch long," that would explain all physical phenomena. "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Einstein
- jayfuerstenberg 15y agoThanks, I'll check out the talk. I saw that Einstein quote the other day. I probably don't understand enough to explain things that simply.