by Apple Computer

Here's to the crazy ones.

The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.

The ones who see things differently.

They're not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.

You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,
disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.

About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.

by Alan J. Perlis, 1922-1990.

I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.

Apple will always be a hardware company. They earn their money by selling iPod's, PowerMac's, XServes, iMac's, MiniMac's, PowerBook and iBooks. In the past, they had to make sure Mac OS X was brilliant, otherwise there was no reason to buy Apple Hardware. But thinking about their switch from PowerPC to Intel chips. Then the future for Apple is so bright. Where you could only run OSX on those wonderful machines (= Apple's cashcow), you can now run Windows on this hardware platform too. So you can

Although the camera I have now, is really really great, there is always room to improve, room to dream.

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