Comments on: “Computers are the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds” – Another Great Steve Quote http://macenstein.com/default/2008/09/computers-are-the-equivalent-of-a-bicycle-for-our-minds-another-great-steve-quote/ Mac news and rumors dug up on the web and sewn into and unholy monster Thu, 24 May 2012 11:14:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jonro http://macenstein.com/default/2008/09/computers-are-the-equivalent-of-a-bicycle-for-our-minds-another-great-steve-quote/comment-page-1/#comment-160753 Jonro Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:27:51 +0000 http://macenstein.com/default/?p=1684#comment-160753 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. 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.

]]> By: AgentW http://macenstein.com/default/2008/09/computers-are-the-equivalent-of-a-bicycle-for-our-minds-another-great-steve-quote/comment-page-1/#comment-160748 AgentW Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:44:09 +0000 http://macenstein.com/default/?p=1684#comment-160748 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? 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?

]]> By: Luque http://macenstein.com/default/2008/09/computers-are-the-equivalent-of-a-bicycle-for-our-minds-another-great-steve-quote/comment-page-1/#comment-160743 Luque Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:04:31 +0000 http://macenstein.com/default/?p=1684#comment-160743 damn you have a lot of advertisements on your website.. this quote is very nice idd..BOOM! damn you have a lot of advertisements on your website..

this quote is very nice idd..BOOM!

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