Jean-Louis Gassee Quotes

Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.

That makes my nipples hard!

Advertising is saying you're good. PR is getting someone else to say you're good.

One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope and anarchy.

You know the people who have the bumper stickers that say "Windows 95 = Mac '89"? These are the faithful, and I respect their faith, but I would like to respectfully point out that faith is dangerous. Religion kills.

The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time.

The goal of the computer is to provide people with the means to extend people's minds and bodies. It is an exoskeleton that expands our human reach.

I want to see the two CEOs of RIM and (Apple CEO Steve) Jobs working together. The thought of this menage a trois is absolutely hilarious.

Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.

As the monkey climbs the tree, more people can see his bottom.

Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law.

When an idea, a proposition, a cause is presented to me in terms that leave me no alternative but to be for it, because it's all pros and no cons, then I know I'm being conned.

Don't try to lawyer me out of common sense.

On the Intel platform, Microsoft is the defacto standard. It's the weather.

I didn't realise those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped.

When I want to do something mindless to relax, I reinstall Windows 95.

If you ask people in the mainstream what they want, they'll say faster and smaller and cheaper. But with that you don't get innovation. If you align yourself with the ball-breaker, high-testosterone crowd, that leads to innovation.

I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age.