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From: anderson@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
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Subject: Re: PS to EPS
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.155148.20973@macc.wisc.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 91 15:51:48 GMT
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In article <3338@esquire.dpw.com> rreid@esquire.UUCP (r l reid ) writes:
>In article <1991Jun26.033014.18062@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:

>><> To seek permission is to seek denial.
>><> -- Steve Jobs

>Oh for goddess's sake Jess - this quote is a blatant ripoff of the
>Grace Hopper line "it's always easier to apologize then to get permission".
>Down with Job's Cult of Personality!

Maybe she was a role model for the young Mr.  Jobs?  For an
older generation, Hopper was herself something of a cult
figure.  I don't see the harm in that, within some reasonable
limits.  Most of us are attracted in one way or another to
things that have a koan-like ring to them, and sometimes a
lot of good comes from that.  There being little new under
the sun (a rip-off from Ecclesiastes, if you like), even
Hopper's remark is probably not that original.

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