What Steve Jobs really thought about stealing other people’s ideas

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The BBC’s Newsnight dug up a great piece of footage from an interview with Steve Jobs from back in the ’90s, for a segment on tonight’s show about the impact of the Apple v Samsung judgment:

“I mean, Picasso had a saying. He said ‘Good artists copy. Great artists steal.’ And we have, y’know, always been shameless about stealing great ideas.”

Original footage, in context, below.

 

Written by jackgavigan

August 28, 2012 at 10:16 pm

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