On His Competitors

Playboy: Are you saying that the people who made PCjr don't have that kind of pride in the product?

'If they did, they wouldn't have made the PCjr.' [Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985]

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'Some people are saying that we ought to put an IBM PC on every desk in America to improve productivity. It won't work. The special incantations you have to learn this time are the 'slash q-zs' and things like that. The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.' [Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985]

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'The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products.'

'I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success