“Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.” ThinkingKnowsOpinionSuicideCommitHeroic Author:Alex Gibney
“I don't think Steve [Jobs] started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer as a bicycle for the human mind - I think that was something he believed.” ThinkingMindHumansIdeasJobsComputerUnderstoodMarketingApplesHuman MindBicycleScams Author:Alex Gibney
“Steve Jobs did not start started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer as a bicycle for the human mind - I think that was something he believed. He believed in making people comfortable with these machines, which is why he spent so much time thinking about how to design them a certain way, how to make them so user-friendly and interactive, and why he spent so much time studying the Zeitgeist.” PeopleThinkingWayMindHumansIdeasJobsCertainStudyDesignComfortableComputerUnderstoodMachinesMarketingApplesFriendlyHuman MindUsersBicycleInteractiveScamsZeitgeistUser Friendly Author:Alex Gibney
“One of the things about Steve Jobs is that he gives us an opportunity to look at the disjuncture between that world and the world he claimed that Apple represented, the "Think different" world of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks and Gandhi.” ThinkingWorldGivingLooksDifferentJobsOpportunityKingsApplesParksLutherDifferent WorldsRosaThink Different Author:Alex Gibney
“I think many articles in the New Yorker have a strong point of view, but they are so rigorously fact-checked. I wouldn't call them objective, but they feel fair.” ThinkingFeelsFactsStrongViewsFairsPoint Of ViewObjectivesArticlesNew Yorkers Author:Alex Gibney
“I think one of things that Steve Jobs, in his own funny way, encouraged us to remember with those "Think different" posters of Gandhi and Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King was, "How do you make the world a better place?"” ThinkingWorldWayDifferentJobsRememberKingsParksBetter PlaceLutherPostersRosaThink Different Author:Alex Gibney
“Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions.' I think that is what is most interesting about people like Jobs.” PeopleThinkingLongJobsInterestingEmbraceContradictionProfessorsLong AgoMost Interesting Author:Alex Gibney