“Twitter wanted all of the credit for the innovation and none of the credit for the impact, when the reality was the other way around. Time after time, they came right up to the limit of acknowledging that, always to turn away at the last moment.”
“Twitter wanted all of the credit for the innovation and none of the credit for the impact, when the reality was the other way around. Time after time, they came right up to the limit of acknowledging that, always to turn away at the last moment.”
“These people have always been this way. They do not seek to learn or grow, despite the startup mantra about ‘always learning.’ They do not see personal growth as anything other than buffing out the edges on their own sculpture — they do not want to get better in any way that does not optimize their own personal wealth.”
“The next day Steve held a meeting with our engineers and me where he punctuated the air dramatically with his finger and said, ‘[NeXT] will live or die by its choice to support the [Motorola] 88110.’ I don’t know what came over me. I said ‘die.’”
“A client would come in to work out a billing procedure, and after Jackson had put the relevant numbers on a sheet — in light pencil, so erasures could be easily made — various questions would come up. For example, if the billing procedure was based on a 15 percent interest rate, what would happen if the rate went up to 18 percent? To find out, the whole sheet would have to be redone. Each figure would have to be punched into a hand calculator and then checked by one of Jackson’s employees.”
“These random angry people are merely asking us to keep our promises. We told them 20-some years ago that we’d try to abolish government and bring a world of plenty. We told them we’d make them powerful, that we’d open gates of knowledge and opportunity.”