The Apple of 1976 is unrecognizable compared to today’s gigantic corporation, and yet key early decisions by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and more, are still having their effect today, half a century later.
Apple has long had a reputation for never looking back, and it’s usually justified. “Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday,” said Steve Jobs in an interview that has long been lost, but is forever quoted in motivational speeches.
He was consistent about this even when talking about himself and his work, though. “[Technology] is not a field where one paints a painting that will be looked at for centuries,” he said in 1994, “or where one builds a church that will be looked at, admired, and looked at in astonishment for centuries.”
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