“It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans.”

—  Steve Jobs

On Apple's lawsuit against him, following his resignation to form NeXT, as quoted in Newsweek (30 September 1985)
1980s

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