Monday, November 28, 2005
GREAT IDEAS ARE NOT ALWAYS RECOGNIZED:
(some passing examples:)
"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we' ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'"
--Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.
" The concept is interesting and well-formed, but inorder to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible."--A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
"But what is it good for?"
Anonymous engineer at IBM's advanced computing systems division commenting on the microchip, 1968
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(some passing examples:)
"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we' ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'"
--Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.
" The concept is interesting and well-formed, but inorder to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible."--A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
"But what is it good for?"
Anonymous engineer at IBM's advanced computing systems division commenting on the microchip, 1968
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WHO GETS THE CREDIT?
"It's amazing what you can do if you don't care who gets the credit" (anon.)
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"It's amazing what you can do if you don't care who gets the credit" (anon.)
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