[Fed-Talk] OT: Steve Jobs on programming, craftsmanship, software, and the Web
[Fed-Talk] OT: Steve Jobs on programming, craftsmanship, software, and the Web
- Subject: [Fed-Talk] OT: Steve Jobs on programming, craftsmanship, software, and the Web
- From: Jeffrey Walton <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 00:22:17 -0400
Just came across this. I know some folks on the list could be interested.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/steve-jobs-on-programming-craftsmanship-software-and-the-web/
In 1995, Steve Jobs gave a rare interview to Robert Cringely for a PBS
special called Triumph of the Nerds to talk about the genesis of the
personal computer. Most of the hour-long interview had been cut down
to a few minutes to use for the three-part special, and the original
master tape was thought to have been lost after production. Shortly
after Jobs' death in October 2011, however, director Paul Sen found a
VHS copy of the entire interview in his garage. Cringely and Sen
worked to clean up the footage and presented "The Lost Interview" in a
handful of art house theaters across the country. Magnolia Pictures
eventually picked up the remastered footage for wider release, and
made it available via iTunes and Amazon Video on Demand this week.
During the interview, Jobs was "at his charismatic best—witty,
outspoken, visionary," according to Cringely. Jobs certainly wasn't
afraid to pull any punches, blaming Apple's poor performance in the
mid-'90s on then-CEO John Sculley's mismanagement, the mediocrity of
computing on Microsoft's lack of taste, and a glut of poorly designed
consumer gadgets on companies overrun by "sales and marketing people."
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