“Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.” PeopleWorldMadeArtistHappenedPoetComputerMusicianScientistPhilosophicalBeing The BestHistorianBest JobShamelessBusiness InnovationInnovation And BusinessDifferent JobsThink DifferentMacintoshZoologistMacintosh Computers Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs
“Ultimately, 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 into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingHumansMadeIdeasDoneArtistInspiringHappenedPoetTasteComputerMusicianScientistStealingBest ThingsMemorableBeing The BestCopiesHistorianGreat ArtGreat IdeaGreat ArtistGood ArtShamelessGood ArtistMacintoshZoologist Author:Steve Jobs
“A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.” GivingReasonFactsHappensTruthPoetryHistoryHappenedObjectsParticularSeriousPoetPoetry Is Book:The poetics Source: The poetics
“I once got a postcard from a French poet who wrote - "you don't know me but I'm always very grumpy when I get up in morning. But when I get up now I put the tea kettle on, and when it starts to sing it makes me smile - goddamn you!" That's what happened when we first designed it - we got a lot of mail.” KnowsFirstsMorningHappenedPoetGet UpTeaMailKnow MePostcardsKettlesGrumpyMake Me SmileYou Don't Know Me Author:Michael Graves
“I don't know that I had a sense that there was such a thing as "the poetry world" in the 1960s and early 70s. Maybe poets did, but for me as an onlooker and reader of poetry, poetry felt like it was part of a larger literary world. I mean, even the phrase "the poetry world" reflects a sort of balkanization of American literary and artistic life that has to some extent happened since then.” KnowsWorldMeanFeltHappenedPoetReaderArtisticPhrases1960sArtistic Life Author:Robert Hass