“When Jobs was looking for someone to write a manual for the Apple II in 1976, he called Raskin, who had his own little consulting firm.”
― Steve Jobs
― Steve Jobs
“When Mike Markkula joined Jobs and Wozniak to turn their fledgling partnership into the Apple Computer Co. in January 1977, they valued it at $5,309. Less than four years later they decided it was time to take it public.”
― Steve Jobs
― Steve Jobs
“endorsed by Jobs,”
― Steve Jobs
― Steve Jobs
“Raskin was just a dreamer, whereas he was a doer and would get the Mac done in a year. It was clear he wanted vindication for having been ousted from the Lisa group, and he was energized by competition. He publicly bet John Couch $5,000 that the Mac would ship before the Lisa. “We can make a computer that’s cheaper and better than the Lisa, and get it out first,” he told the team. Jobs asserted his control of the group by canceling a brown-bag lunch seminar that Raskin was scheduled to give to the whole company in February 1981. Raskin happened to go by the room anyway and discovered that there were a hundred people there waiting to hear him;”
― Steve Jobs
― Steve Jobs
“Daniel Kottke was not one of them. He had been Jobs’s soul mate in college, in India, at the All One Farm, and in the rental house they shared during the Chrisann Brennan crisis.”
― Steve Jobs
― Steve Jobs
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