There’ll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
ADAM OSBORNEThere’ll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
ADAM OSBORNEWe can learn from IBM’s successful history that you don’t have to have the best product to become number one.
ADAM OSBORNEInterpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
ADAM OSBORNEThe guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don’t understand computers.
ADAM OSBORNEYou don’t even have to have a good product.
ADAM OSBORNEThe future lies in designing and selling computers that people don’t realize are computers at all.
ADAM OSBORNEThis is the ultimate con game – I’m having fun and people pay me to do it.
ADAM OSBORNEAdequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous.
ADAM OSBORNEMoney coming in says I’ve made the right marketing decisions
ADAM OSBORNEOnly taking the best evidence available at the present time,
ADAM OSBORNEWith bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it’s still a good buy.
ADAM OSBORNEPeople think computers will keep them from making mistakes
ADAM OSBORNEYou can’t learn anything from being perfect.
ADAM OSBORNEAdequacy is sufficient.
ADAM OSBORNEThey’re wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
ADAM OSBORNEI liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
ADAM OSBORNE