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With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
Adam Osborne
Hardware
Machines
Software
The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
Adam Osborne
Computers
People
Want
I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
Adam Osborne
People
I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
Adam Osborne
Time
Work
Fact
Mind
Nothing
Open
Present
Tomorrow
Will
Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.
Adam Osborne
Money
Decisions
Marketing
Right
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
Adam Osborne
Computers
People
Mistakes
Will
Wrong
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
Adam Osborne
Computers
People
Selling
Future
Lies
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
Adam Osborne
Mistake
Being
There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
Adam Osborne
People
Hell
This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
Adam Osborne
People
Fun
We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
Adam Osborne
History
Successful
Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
Adam Osborne
Software