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I thought that quote came from Bill Atkinson.

• card_zero 11mo ago
  Hmm. Jobs used the bicycle metaphor extensively in this advert-interview thing: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1050/0*SgDLtymZpgcXEA7A https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1050/0*SgDLtymZpgcXEA7... Which (squinting) was printed in the WSJ in 1980: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1148/1*wXZ9t85eJnREeDwTe1U2CQ.jpeg https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1148/1*wXZ9t85eJnREeDw... But "bicycle for the mind" might be John Sculley, 1986: https://archive.org/details/apple-retro-books-collection/Apple/Newsletters/Basug%20Hardcore/BASUG%20%28British%20Apple%20System%20Users%20Group%20%29_Hardcore%20Vol%206%20No%203%20June%201986%5Bocr%5D/page/16/mode/2up?q=%22bicycle+for+the+mind%22 https://archive.org/details/apple-retro-books-collection/App... Unless of course Jobs said it earlier.
  • mvkel 11mo ago
    It's from a video interview with him in 1980: “I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species… The condor came in at the top. Humans came in about a third of the way down. But when a human rides a bicycle, we blow the condor away. That’s what a computer is for me: a bicycle for the mind.”
    • card_zero 11mo ago
      Sure that wasn't 1990?