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Steve Jobs had such a way with words. I personally love this quote: "This is not a field where one paints a painting which will be looked at for centuries...Th
by hello_newman 13y ago
Steve Jobs had such a way with words. I personally love this quote:
"This is not a field where one paints a painting which will be looked at for centuries...This is a field where one does his work and in ten years it is obsolete."
I loved the metaphor:
"It's sort of like a sentiment of rocks. You're building up a mountain and you get to contribute your little layer of sedimentary rock to make the mountain that much higher. No one will see it, but they will stand on it."
I think this is so true. Tech is about building on what others have done. Picking up where on person left off. It's a never ending cycle.
I also like the line "it'll be appreciated by that rare geologist". In 100 years when historians are looking back on the tech boom that we are currently living in, it'll be very interesting to see what goes down in history books as the most influential invention, device, software etc that really started this revolution.
- monsterix 13y ago> "It's sort of like a sentiment of rocks. You meant 'sediment of rocks'? > Steve Jobs had such a way with words. Oh absolutely. There are so many classy lines from him. And some of these lines are going to impact our industry for years to come. Take for example: The 'Post-PC era'? Damn just those three words. They paint an altogether new story that is going to be written all over again! It gives an excitement and pumps blood back into what our industry does best - wow the users.
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- dman 13y agoThis is why Ritchie and McCarthy deserve a special place in computing heaven.
- jdpage 13y agoOkay, I appreciate that Ritchie was a genius and that C was revolutionary and is foundational to modern computing. But seriously, C arrays not having bounds checks has probably caused more security disasters than anything else in the history of computing, with the possible exception of end-users. Was there a good reason for this, and if so, what was it?
- georgemcbay 13y agoC was introduced in 1972, that's a year before I was born (and it had been in development for a couple years prior). The first computer I programmed on ran at 1 mhz and had 64 kilobytes of RAM. Is it really so hard to see why C didn't historically have bounds checking? Bounds checking was pretty controversial in languages even as late as the early 2000s because of the runtime cost.
- emiliobumachar 13y agoI'm going to guess performance. Sure it's tiny today, but what about back then?
- dman 13y agoC is to sytems computing what democracy is to governance.
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- snorkel 13y ago... unless your Steve Jobs, in which case you get to stand on top of the mountain and tell everyone else how to build it.
- robotresearcher 13y agoSuperiority snark is more effective when spelled correctly.
- jaredcwhite 13y agoIt's interesting you say your first sentence there, because I was thinking exactly the same thing: Steve was always so good with words. I think that, combined with his impeccable taste for new product design and iterations, was his greatest strength.
- prollyignored 13y agoThis inventive use of language, resembles the way all LSD heads speak. They can't solve a hard problem, but they can sure come up with a half-fake metaphor that semble's a solution. There is an entertaining razzle dazzle aspect to these folks, but in the end these people and their words are self-contradictory tosh. On top of that, these people are on the verge of psychosis, after abusive drug use in their earlier lives. It's oh-so-difficult to imagine a hippie selling luxury goods, given that we have steve. I'd rather stick with virtuous gutter idiots, than be steve.
- zalew 13y ago> "This is not a field where one paints a painting which will be looked at for centuries...This is a field where one does his work and in ten years it is obsolete." master of the obvious.
- platz 13y agoReminds me of those monks that spend weeks making beautiful, meticulous sand mandalas, who then destroy them immediately upon completion.
- prollyignored2 13y agoThanks for hell-banning my previous nick ! I promise not to commit a thought crime, like speaking ill of stevey. Can I lick your eye balls to show my appreciation, for your integrity ? I wonder if HN-Nomencletura tries, to re-write other people's comments and submissions with their God given admin powers ! HN \m/
- jad 13y ago> Steve Jobs had such a way with words. More importantly, his way with words was indicative of a remarkable clarity of thought.