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Ex-Apple CEO John Sculley Dishes On Steve Jobs
digitaldc writes "Here's a full transcript of the interview with John Sculley on the subject of Steve Jobs. It's long but worth reading because there are some awesome insights into how Jobs does things. It's also one of the frankest CEO interviews you'll ever read. Sculley talks openly about Jobs and Apple, admits it was a mistake to hire him to run the company and that he knows little about computers. It's rare for anyone, never mind a big-time CEO, to make such frank assessment of their career in public."
Considering the observation that Sculley makes that MS is all about hiring geeks and smart people and Apple is all about hiring designers and marketers ("Apple is a designers company, not an engineers company," as he says), it still amazes me that MS is so bashed on /. and Apple so celebrated.
That's because Microsoft has been too busy proving the opposite of the infinite monkey theorem: "Thousands of smart geeks typing on thousands of typewriters for an infinite amount of time will almost surely create the shittiest piece of work known to man."
I think you just succinctly described /.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Actually, most of those tasks end with the word "Ville".
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The interview basically goes like this:
Q: Is Jobs really that awesome?
A: Yes, Steve is so totally awesome. He's so awesome that his awesomeness is itself awesome. That's why all his projects are awesome. I'm an idiot, but even I can recognize that Steve is awesome. Isn't that awesome?
Q: No, but really, just that other thing Steve did - doesn't it show for real how awesome he is?
A: Totally, it's like it's all about awesomeness. Oh, also, Steve is perfect at anything he does. And so are his products. He's so unimaginably perfect that it's totally awesome. Oh, didn't I say everything he makes is awesome? Yeah!
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