16 Quotes by Jean-Louis Gassee

Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive.

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

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

That makes my nipples hard!

One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colours of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn’t dream of a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope and anarchy.

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.

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.

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

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