I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
— Walt Mossberg
I try not to make snap judgments. I never, ever make conclusions about products I've never tried.
I've been on the Web from the beginning of the Web. The good part about writing about technology is that you never run out of ideas, because it's changing so fast. The bad part is that it's changing so fast that there's a million new products and ideas every day and every week.
People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.
Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.
