"Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though."
"People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards."
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Source: Interview with Rob Walker, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.
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