“I’ve been against Macintosh company lately. They’re trying to get everyone to use iPads and when people use iPads they end up just using technology to consume things instead of making things. With a computer you can make things. You can code, you can make things and create things that have never before existed and do things that have never been done before.”
“That’s the problem with a lot of people”, he continued, “they don’t try to do stuff that’s never been done before, so they never do anything, but if they try to do it, they find out there’s lots of things they can do that have never been done before.”
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One random afternoon in Portland, I walked into World Cup & Tea expecting to get some work done and maybe answer a few emails. What followed was an unexpected ass kicking from the guy who invented…
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Ken Foreman
August 7, 2012 at 9:47 am
(from the article)
“You know Russell, that’s really impressive.”
“I guess, I’ve always believed that nothing is withheld from us what we have conceived to do. Most people think the opposite – that all things are withheld from them which they have conceived to do and they end up doing nothing.”
“Wait”, I said, pausing at his last sentence ”What was that quote again?”
*“Nothing is withheld from us what we have conceived to do.”+
That’s good, who said that?
God did.
What?
God said it and there were only two people who believed it, you know who?
Nope, who?
God and me, so I went out and did it.
Wes Smith
August 7, 2012 at 5:55 pm
I have lots of Apple/Windoze hardware and excluding what I do at work, I create infinitely more stuff on OS X and iOS than I do on Windows. (and I do mean 'infinite' literally as in something divided by 0). It is just so much easier to create things with Apple software.
I liked that story, but it shows some anti-Apple bias, as Android and Windows 8 are also going to tablets and copying pretty much the iPad. There have been changes in create vs consume but I think that has more to do with the Internet than it does specific hardware or specific OS.
After I read that story, I didn't think about that quote or the anti-Apple bias. Instead I thought – Damn that guy must feel good about what he accomplished, he must look back on his career and feel very proud of what he has done.