“If it could save a person’s life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year.”

— Steve Jobs

As quoted in Steve Jobs (2011) by Walter Isaacson, p. 123
2010s

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