Jean-Louis Gassee Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

That makes my nipples hard!

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.

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

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.

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