None of us live in the honesty of the objective universe; a cold and uncaring domain where brutal science holds sway. Such a frigid and unfeeling place is far to large and painful for us to bear in the lives we live.
We each of us are artists who paint our world as in a dream born darkly in fading memories, prejudices, and reeling from the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune that color our lives. And in the illusion of our dream we seek solace and the strength to keep going. Axil On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > I wrote: > > >> If Jobs seriously believes that without him there would be no proportional >> fonts in modern computers, he is delusional. . . . >> > > >> to call it a "lie" is an overstatement, because even Jobs knows this isn't >> true, and he must know he is not fooling anyone. >> > > I mean he is not fooling anyone who knows the history of computers. > > Jobs got the idea for the Mac when he saw a Xerox Parc computer. The Parc > had proportional fonts, and many other innovations that Jobs later took > credit for. > > Modesty is not his strong suit. > > On the other hand, Xerox never even tried to sell the Parc, whereas Jobs > went through hell getting the Lisa and then the Mac to market. That's genius > enough. I don't begrudge him his fame or money. > > - Jed > >
