Macintosh

6 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 14, 2024 by David Senra · said 73 times in 15 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Mar 14, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Jobs (1984): Every future computer will inevitably work like the Macintosh
“I remember the week before we launched the Mac, we all got together and we said, every computer is going to work this way. You cannot argue about that anymore. You can argue about how long it will take, but you can't argue about it anymore. It is inevitable.”
David Senra Mar 14, 2024 ▶ 21:18 Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
Mar 14, 2024 positive
What-if
Jobs: Modern computer typography exists because I audited a college calligraphy course
“If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would never have had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them either.”
David Senra Mar 14, 2024 ▶ 1:53:23 Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
Mar 24, 2024
Insight
Steve Jobs: Top performers refuse to work alongside mediocre talent
“The Macintosh experience taught me that A players like to work only, only with other A players, which means you cannot indulge B players.”
David Senra Mar 24, 2024 ▶ 14:04 David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)
Jul 2, 2024
Assertion Supported
Steve Jobs capped the original Macintosh team at exactly 100 people
“So when he was building the first Macintosh, he's in his twenties, he limited the team to a hundred people. If you wanted to add a person, if you say, Hey, we need, you know, this person's help. You act, you first have to find the person that was unnecessary a…”
David Senra Jul 2, 2024 ▶ 19:50 How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple
Aug 14, 2025
What-if
Jobs's audited calligraphy class brought proportionally spaced fonts to computers
“If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would never have had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them either.”
David Senra Aug 14, 2025 ▶ 1:55:03 Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
Aug 14, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jobs predicted every future computer would work like the Macintosh
“I remember the week before we launched the Mac, we all got together and we said, every computer is going to work this way. You cannot argue about that anymore. You can argue about how long it will take, but you can't argue about it anymore. It is inevitable.”
David Senra Aug 14, 2025 ▶ 23:30 Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
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