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  • From: "Joanna Wolfe (919)677-0977" <wolfe AT oup-usa.org>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Quote for the day
  • Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 07:36:04 -0400 (EDT)


From:
March 29, 2001

STATE OF THE ART

A New Face (and Heart) for the Mac

By DAVID POGUE

"The bad news is that learning Unix is about as much fun
as eating sand. So Apple's plan was to hide it completely
behind a beautiful software overlay, a face rich with
translucence, gentle animation and 3-D shadows. Clearly,
it bugged Mr. Jobs, Apple's chief executive, that his
company's futuristic-looking computers, like the G4 Cube
and the titanium PowerBook laptop, ran software that was
designed before Madonna was a blonde."

for the complete article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/29/technology/29STAT.html




  • Quote for the day, Joanna Wolfe (919)677-0977, 03/29/2001

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