On why he delayed the Leopard OS in favor of developing the iPhone rather than hiring more developers, at the annual Apple stockholder's meeting (10 May 2007) as quoted in "Apple's Jobs brushes aside backdating concerns" at c|net News (10 May 2007) http://archive.is/20130628220833/http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6182965.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news
As quoted in "Apple iPhone: more secrets revealed" (11 May 2007) http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/mac/news/apple-iphone-jobs-spills-more-secrets?articleid=1431998781
2000s
Variant: I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check … if so, then Microsoft would have great products.
“I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check.”
On why he delayed the Leopard OS in favor of developing the iPhone rather than hiring more developers, at the annual Apple stockholder's meeting (10 May 2007) as quoted in "Apple's Jobs brushes aside backdating concerns" at c|net News (10 May 2007) http://archive.is/20130628220833/http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6182965.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news
Variant: I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check … if so, then Microsoft would have great products.
As quoted in "Apple iPhone: more secrets revealed" (11 May 2007) http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/mac/news/apple-iphone-jobs-spills-more-secrets?articleid=1431998781
2005-09
Context: I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.
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“Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.”
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Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 38
Source: 1940s, The theory of the firm in the last ten Years, 1942, p. 800 cited in: P. Lloyd (2012) "The Discovery of the Isoquant - History of Political Economy"
[NewsBank, Nurturing the inventor in your child, Southwest Times Record, Fort Smith, Arkansas, August 25, 2000, Pam Cloud Smith]
“I wish I could not write.”
Vellem nescire literas.
Variant translation: I wish I were illiterate.
Quoted in " De Clementia" - Chapter 1, Book 2 by Lucius Annaeus Seneca.
“Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.”
“I wish it were as easy to buy time as it is to buy good books.”