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joincolossus.comJobs: In the future, it won’t be an act of faith. The hard part of what we’re up against now is that people ask you about specifics and you can’t tell them. A hundred years ago, if somebody had asked Alexander Graham Bell, “What are you going to be able to do with a telephone?” he wouldn’t have been able to tell him the ways the telephone would... See more
Steve Jobs • Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs
“I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance— and bitter, exaggerated, last-ditch resistance— to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money as a result of the change. Although they never advanced
... See moreobserved: don’t expect customers to celebrate a major innovation before they get use to it. at first blush most customers prefer familiarity, even if a step-function improvement awaits.
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