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EssaysAnd they, incidentally, are busted. Notes The facts about Apple's early history are from an interview with Steve Wozniak in Jessica Livingston's forthcoming Founders at Work, Apress, 2006. As usual the popular image is several decades behind reality. Now the misunderstood artist is not a chain-smoking drunk who pours his soul into big, messy canvases that philistines see and say "that's not art" because it isn't a picture of anything. The philistines have now been trained that anything hung on a wall is art. Now the misunderstood artist is a coffee-drinking vegan cartoonist whose work they see and say "that's not art" because it looks like stuff they've seen in the Sunday paper. In fact this would do fairly well as a definition of politics: what determines rank in the absence of objective tests. In high school you're led to believe your whole future depends on where you go to college, but it turns out to only buy you a couple years. By your mid-twenties the people worth impressing already judge you more by what you've done than where you went to school ...» |
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