What Steve Jobs thinks about taste
American entrepreneur (1955 to 2011); co-founded Apple in 1976 and led it again from 1997 to 2011; ran Pixar from 1986 to 2006.
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2 dated positions, 1996, in their own words. Our reading of what Steve Jobs has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsUltimately it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things in to what you're doing.
↗Triumph of the Nerds, part 3 (PBS, 1996): transcriptweb.archive.org 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThe only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste, and what that means is - I don't mean that in a small way I mean that in a big way. In the sense that they they don't think of original ideas and they don't bring much culture into their product
↗Triumph of the Nerds, part 3 (PBS, 1996): transcriptweb.archive.org 2nd of 2 in this piece
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