Probably you already know this, but it was a Steve Jobs thing: Growing up, Jobs once helped his father build a fence around their family home in Mountain View.

Probably you already know this, but it was a Steve Jobs thing: Growing up, Jobs once helped his father build a fence around their family home in Mountain View. While working, Paul shared a piece of advice with Jobs: “You’ve got to make the back of the fence, that nobody will see, just as good looking as the front of the fence. Even though nobody will see it, you will know, and that will show that you’re dedicated to making something perfect.” The idea stuck with Jobs. While at the helm of Apple, Jobs insisted that every element of the Macintosh computer be beautiful, down to the circuit boards inside. “Look at the memory chips. That’s ugly. The lines are too close together,” Jobs said of the circuits in Isaacson’s biography. […] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/10/how-steve-jobs-developed-his-design-philosophy-for-apple.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/10/how-steve-jobs-developed-his...