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Quotes of the Day for 24 February 2005 - Reality

Steven Paul Jobs was born at San Francisco on this day in 1955. In high school he had the nerve to call Bill Hewlett to ask for some electronics parts for a school project. (He got the parts and a summer job.) He dropped out of college and was working at Atari when he decided to start a computer company with Steve Wozniak, they incorporated on April Fools Day in 1976. He created first the Apple, then the Macintosh. Losing a boardroom battle, he bought a tiny animation company and created the first all-digital motion picture, Toy Story. He created the technically stunning NeXT computer, then merged that company into Apple. He created the first successful portable music player, the iPod. Throughout, he would have an idea, evangelize it fervently, and brook no interference with those who didn't share his belief, and the one thing that Jobs may be best known for is his famed "reality distortion field". Here's to reality, or at least to what's left of it.

Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.
     - Aldous Leonard Huxley, Brave New World

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
     - Anaïs Nin, 1903 - 1977

Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.
     - Joseph Conrad, 1857 - 1924

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
     - Richard Feynman, 1918 - 1988

The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.
     - Ludwig Feuerbach, 1804 - 1872

Reality is something you rise above.
     - Liza Minnelli

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