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born 1944 France

Jean-Louis Gassée (born March 1944) is a computer marketer, former chief technology officer of Apple Computer, founder of Be, Incorporated, current chairman of PalmSource

France
Businesspeople

Also known as: Gassée, Jean-Louis

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The way to find what the mainstream will do tomorrow is to associate with the lunatic fringe today.

Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law.

Thank God that [Apple buying Be] didn’t happen, because I hated Apple's management. I couldn’t picture myself in there.

I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age

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

That makes my nipples hard!

We must always give our users pure sex. It's like a rendezvous in the back seat of an automobile with a beautiful girl. One's experience with the personal computer should be better than the greatest orgasm you could have.

I want to see the two CEOs of RIM and [Apple CEO Steve] Jobs working together. The thought of this ménage à trois is absolutely hilarious.

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I didn't realise those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jean-Louis Gassée (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.