iPod, therefore i Am. Steve Jobs may want to reconsider.

[klimeckg]

If you have not seen the cover of Newsweek, it shows the face of Steve Jobs of Apple computer holding an iPod. The heading reads: iPod, therefore i Am. Now this was not as blatant as John Lennon saying that the Beatles were greater than Jesus Christ, but it comes very close. If one recalls, John Lennon did not live a long life. And it is reported that Wang computers fell due to such boasting. I am told that Mr. Wang put his name in big letters on the top of the Wang building in Boston. When asked why he did this, he said he wanted all to know who Wang was. Shortly after this, he died and his son took over and that was the end of Wang computers.

So, when I see commerce using the scriptures to promote themselves I track the time and see what befalls them. Now, whether Mr. Jobs said this or simply allowed Newsweek to use the line I do not know, but he must have approved of it. My brother worked for Apple and has a few stories to tell about Mr. Jobs' character and person which are not at all surprising, but are not the warm fuzzy feelings one would think of the Apple CEO. I am not surprised to see Mr. Jobs building his Babylonian tower to the heavens in defiance and making such claims. I am curious to see how things pan out from this day forward.

-Klimeckg

[freedumb2003]

Someone want to tell me what scriptures are being quoted?

Descartes yes, scriptures, no.

[TomServo]

Breaking news?

[Dr. Frank fan]

The heading reads: iPod, therefore i Am. [..] So, when I see commerce using the scriptures to promote themselves

Descartes = "the scriptures"??

I sure hope this is parody. If so, it's hilarious! :-)

[AQGeiger]

The phrase "I think, therefore I am" comes from Rene Descartes' Discourse on Method.

While Descartes was very religious, the phrase does not come from religious scripture by any means.

[rdb3]

Descartes said "I think therefore I am."

It's not in the Bible.

BTW, wasn't Descartes an atheist?

$710.96.. The price of freedom.

[Androcles]

Quite right./ You beat me to it. Klimeckg has confused ' I think therefore I am' with 'I am that I am'. Methinks Klimeckg has a little too much time on his/her hands....

Also, he must be a little surprised by the lack of divine retribution to other prominent individuals putting their names up high (ie Trumop towers)...

[HAL9000]

[DuncanWaring]

If you're alluding to "I think, therefore, I am", that's Rene Descartes, not Scripture.

[pt17]

I am told that Mr. Wang put his name in big letters on the top of the Wang building in Boston

There's a lot of companies that put their name on buildings and things: Heinz, Coors, DuPont, ad infinitum. What's your point?

[Yardstick]

I am curious to see how things pan out from this day forward.

I'm interested in seeing how this thread pans out.

[Petronski]

Wow, are you confused. It's not like he said "I am the name that must not be spoken: iPod."

[gargoyle]

...John Lennon did not say the Beatles were greater than Jesus, He said the Beatles, at the time, were more popular than Jesus...

[Bella_Bru]

And it is reported that Wang computers fell due to such boasting. I am told that Mr. Wang put his name in big letters on the top of the Wang building in Boston.

Do you have any idea how many companies are named after their founder?

[jocon307]

OK, it's never a wrong time for.....The Philosphers Drinking Song:

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out consume
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'bout the raisin' of the wrist.
Socrates himself was permanently pissed.

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
after half a pint of champy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away,
'alf a crate of whiskey every day!
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
and Hobbes was fond of his Dram.
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart:
"I drink, therefore I am."

Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.

[eleven_eleven]

you misspelled koran. and this isnt an islamic murmuring site.

[Vermonter]

On the plus side, iPod, Jobs and Newsweek are correct

[MrLee]

I bought one iPod when they first came out and another since. Love 'em!! And my Apple stock has gone from $13 to around $33.
I'm happy!

[eleven_eleven]

or confused with "i yam what i yam". maybe the pious poster thinks popeye is the anti-christ.

[AQGeiger]

Descartes was pretty devout. He was raised Catholic but became a believer in Jansenism, which was an offshoot of the Catholic Church in the 1600's. Jansenism was actually heretical as far as the Church was concerned, though, because it emphasizes predestination as opposed to free will.