“Computers are the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds” - Another Great Steve Quote
In the full context of what is being discussed here, Steve’s “Computers are the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds” actually makes a decent amount of sense. However, who the heck cares about context these days?!?! Somebody needs to take this piece of footage and slap it onto a compilation reel along with Steve’s “Scrolls like butter” comment, NOW!
[via Scholarspot]
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3 Comments on “Computers are the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds” - Another Great Steve Quote
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Luque on
Wed, 24th Sep 2008 8:04 am
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AgentW on
Wed, 24th Sep 2008 9:44 am
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Jonro on
Wed, 24th Sep 2008 11:27 am
damn you have a lot of advertisements on your website..
this quote is very nice idd..BOOM!
Scott McNealy’s infamous 1996 speech, in which he claimed to have banned PowerPoint from Sun Microsystems, used the bicycle reference, too.
“The world didn’t like (mainframe computing outages) and so we went out and created the bicycle of computing - its called the PC.” (Remember when we used to admit that Macs were “personal computers”, too?) “You think about the personal computer… it’s like a mountain bike…”
The speech generally trashed personal computing, generically, as a “productivity drain” rather than an aid to efficiency; McNealy was pushing a Utopian view of network computing, spartan and streamlined, with four-function word processing rather than 4,000-function. Twelve years later… well… nice idea, though, Scott.
In what year did The Steve hand down this wisdom?
In this context, Steve was referring to the efficiency of the bicycle, in terms of the amount of energy required to go from Point A to Point B. It’s an astute observation.
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