{"id":3094,"date":"2011-10-07T23:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2011-10-07T23:01:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T04:01:09","slug":"steve-jobs-greater-than-i-knew-we-need-more-hammer-throwers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/07\/steve-jobs-greater-than-i-knew-we-need-more-hammer-throwers\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs, Greater Than I Knew – We Need More Hammer Throwers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I never purchased an Apple computer. The magazines and publishers I dealt with preferred PC-based formats, so i have chugged along with tolerable machines over the decades (except for the last Dell piece of @#$#@#$@ I bought). <\/p>\n

I use computers mostly for simple stuff – glorified word processing – so I didn’t feel a need to splurge on Apple products.<\/p>\n

Yet, reading about Steve Jobs over the last few days – he was far more impressive than I realized. I especially love his quote: “Why join the Navy when you can be a pirate?”<\/p>\n

Likewise, his quote from a May 1998 Business Week interview is a diamond-cutter:<\/p>\n

“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

I re-watched the famous 1984 ad for Macintosh computers this eve, and its message is now more relevant than ever.
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