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Former Apple CEO John Sculley talks about Steve Jobs
Brandon Davenport
Steve Jobs is one of the most interesting and influential people in the world. He has built a company who’s core values contradict everything that the “rule book” demands, and he has always sacrificed cost, popularity and market share, for user experience. Some say he is an over-controlling overloard, and others say he is the best thing that has ever happened to consumer technology industry — but one thing is for sure, Steve Jobs is one of the most interesting people in the world.
“I remember going into Steve’s house and he had almost no furniture in it. He just had a picture of Einstein, whom he admired greatly, and he had a Tiffany lamp and a chair and a bed. He just didn’t believe in having lots of things around but he was incredibly careful in what he selected. The same thing was true with Apple. Here’s someone who starts with the user experience, who believes that industrial design shouldn’t be compared to what other people were doing with technology products but it should be compared to people were doing with jewelry… Go back to my lock example, and hinges and a door with beautiful brass, finely machined, mechanical devices. And I think that reflects everything that I have ever seen that Steve has touched.” — Former Apple CEO, John Sculley
Cult of Mac has a fantastic transscript of an interview with John Sculley, and it is well worth a read. You’ll get a little peek inside the mind of Steve Jobs, and what made hims to influential in the corporate and consumer world — Read the interview
