Apple Quotes

So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'

Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer

Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.

The response from Joe Keenan, President of Atari, to Steve Jobs' offer.

The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There is no evidence that people want to use these things. What businessman knows about point sizes on typefaces or the value of variable point sizes? Who out there in the general marketplace even knows what a 'font' is? The whole concept and attitude towards icons and hieroglyphs is actually counterrevolutionary — it's a language that is hardly 'user friendly'. This type of machine was developed by hardware hackers working out of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. It has yet to find popular success. There seems to be some mysterious user resistance to this type of machine.

John Dvorak, explaining why the Apple Macintosh would fail in the San Francisco Examiner, 1984

The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec.

Marcus Dolengo


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