"I said pretty much the same on "Lambda the ultimate",
well the very next comment (on LTU) was interesting. Titled " Steve Jobs' Sales Prevention Program", it says
"Back in the NeXT days, some of us involved with the NeXT in one way or another used to talk about Steve Jobs' "Sales Prevention Program" because it was all too common for him to implement policies or do something that would kill a particular sale (in some cases a sale of many machines), or destroy NeXT's prospects in a market.
It was the flip side of his amazing intuitive sense of elegance and form. This sense allowed him to instantly 'know' the right way to do things, most of the time. But because he lived by that intuitive sense, when it came up wrong he had no way to rationalize an alternative. Just as there was no way to express why he was right in the 'right' cases, there was no way to argue with that intuitive sense when it was wrong - and quite often there was no way to know whether he was right or wrong until later. "
well the very next comment (on LTU) was interesting. Titled " Steve Jobs' Sales Prevention Program", it says
"Back in the NeXT days, some of us involved with the NeXT in one way or another used to talk about Steve Jobs' "Sales Prevention Program" because it was all too common for him to implement policies or do something that would kill a particular sale (in some cases a sale of many machines), or destroy NeXT's prospects in a market.
It was the flip side of his amazing intuitive sense of elegance and form. This sense allowed him to instantly 'know' the right way to do things, most of the time. But because he lived by that intuitive sense, when it came up wrong he had no way to rationalize an alternative. Just as there was no way to express why he was right in the 'right' cases, there was no way to argue with that intuitive sense when it was wrong - and quite often there was no way to know whether he was right or wrong until later. "