Max Planck, after he won the Nobel Prize, went around Germany giving the same standard lecture on the new quantum mechanics.
Over time, his chauffeur memorized the lecture and said, “Would you mind, Professor Planck, because it’s so boring to stay in our routine, if I gave the lecture in Munich and you just sat in front wearing my chauffeur’s hat?” Planck said, “Why not?” And the chauffeur got up and gave this long lecture on quantum mechanics. After which a physics professor stood up and asked a perfectly ghastly question. The speaker said, “Well I’m surprised that in an advanced city like Munich I get such an elementary question. I’m going to ask my chauffeur to reply.”
Posibil să fie mit, dar la câte povești au apărut despre Jobs, este la fel de posibil sa fie adevărat
When engineers working on the very first iPod completed the prototype, they presented their work to Steve Jobs for his approval. Jobs played with the device, scrutinized it, weighed it in his hands, and promptly rejected it. It was too big.
The engineers explained that they had to reinvent inventing to create the iPod, and that it was simply impossible to make it any smaller. Jobs was quiet for a moment. Finally he stood, walked over to an aquarium, and dropped the iPod in the tank. After it touched bottom, bubbles floated to the top.
“Those are air bubbles,” he snapped. “That means there’s space in there. Make it smaller.”
O altă poveste cu Jobs: se cunoaște deja accentul pus pe părțile care nu se văd. La începutul Apple, inginerii au proiectat o placă de bază care nu arăta cum ar fi dorit Jobs:
“Well, that was a difficult part to layout because of the memory bus.”, Burrell responded. “If we change it, it might not work as well electrically”.
“OK, I’ll tell you what,” said Steve. “Let’s do another layout to make the board prettier, but if it doesn’t work as well, we’ll change it back.”
So we invested another $5,000 or so to make a few boards with a new layout that routed the memory bus in a Steve-approved fashion. But sure enough, the new boards didn’t work properly, as Burrell had predicted, so we switched back to the old design for the next run of prototypes.
