Comments on: Steve Jobs: Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish http://smashingtelly.com/2008/01/15/steve-jobs-stay-hungry-stay-foolish/ A hand picked TV channel Thu, 10 May 2012 11:22:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: OilMonkey http://smashingtelly.com/2008/01/15/steve-jobs-stay-hungry-stay-foolish/comment-page-1/#comment-518 OilMonkey Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:18:05 +0000 http://smashingtelly.oobject.com/?p=394#comment-518 While those who create his "art" stay hungry. While those who create his “art” stay hungry.

]]> By: OilMonkey http://smashingtelly.com/2008/01/15/steve-jobs-stay-hungry-stay-foolish/comment-page-1/#comment-519 OilMonkey Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:14:20 +0000 http://smashingtelly.oobject.com/?p=394#comment-519 If he is remembered at all, it will be as a fool. But no more so than those who believed in infinite growth on a finite planet. "Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist." - Kenneth Boulding And 2 more equally applicable Boulding quotes: "We make our tools, and then they shape us." "The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse to do good and make things better." The last quote reminds me of the e-waste and sweatshops borne of Jobs' religious art: schnews.co.uk/archive/news582.htm Staying foolish indeed. If he is remembered at all, it will be as a fool.

But no more so than those who believed in infinite growth on a finite planet.

“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”

- Kenneth Boulding

And 2 more equally applicable Boulding quotes:

“We make our tools, and then they shape us.”

“The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse to do good and make things better.”

The last quote reminds me of the e-waste and sweatshops borne of Jobs’ religious art:

schnews.co.uk/archive/news582.htm

Staying foolish indeed.

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