Here's to the Crazy Ones: Verbatim from Apple.com

American Digest ^ | January 12, 2005 | Vanderleun

[vanderleun]

Think different.

 Here's to the crazy ones.
   The misfits.
    The rebels.
     The troublemakers.
      The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.

They're not fond of rules.
   And they have no respect for the status quo.

You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,
  disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
    Because they change things.

They invent.    They imagine.     They heal.

 They explore.     They create.    They inspire.
      They push the human race forward.

Maybe they have to be crazy.

How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?

We make tools for these kinds of people.

While some see them as the crazy ones,
    we see genius.

Because the people who are crazy enough to think
    they can change the world, are the ones who do.

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[FreeKeys]

"Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded -- here and there, now and then -- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty." -- Robert A. Heinlein

[FreeKeys]

ThinkDifferent ping

[AQGeiger]

I find it interesting that the rabid liberals at Apple would allow themselves to run an ad featuring President Bush.

I also find it interesting that the caption for the ad refers to him only as "Bush," not by "President" or even "Mr."

[Cicero]

Not until the hippie revolution of the 60s did anyone dream that you could have misfits, crazies, people marching to a different drummer, by the millions. That's chiefly what turned me off the movement from the start, because I'm a contrarian.

Imagine. Fifty million hippies all thinking they are DIFFERENT, but all wearing the same outfits. Or two or three million Apple users all thinking they are different, like round pegs in square holes.

Somehow, when you see mass advertisers appealing to people because they are one-of-a-kind different, absolutely unique, you get the feeling they are liars.

[wvobiwan]

As a computer professional, there is nothing I hate worse than trying to make an Apple computer work in a networked, shared, distributed environment. They're stand-alone junk as far as I'm concerned.

That said, I too find it interesting that the flaming liberals at Apple would even mention Bush without adding "Nazi", "Warmonger" or "liar" in there somewhere.

[Cicero]

Matter of fact, there's a very funny book by Connie Willis--a terrific SF writer--on the subject of fads and trends, and how hordes of people suddenly start being different in the same way.

[pageonetoo]

If you are a computer professional, trying to make Macs network with PC's, and have difficulty, it is probably because you really do not know what you are doing...

ethernet is ethernet!

[Sonny M]

I find it interesting that the rabid liberals at Apple would allow themselves to run an ad featuring President Bush.

I wonder how they feel about Karl Rove and Dick Cheney.

Vice President Cheney recived an iPod for christmas.

Karl Rove is a full blown Machead, Everything Rove does for strategy, tactics, graphs, etc, he does on His Mac, he's also evangical about Apple and his other favorite device, the Blackberry.

I may be greatfull to Rove for his help with the GOP, but his love affair with Mac, leaves me thinking he's probably a bit of a nerd.

[ThinkDifferent]

there is nothing I hate worse than trying to make an Apple computer work in a networked, shared, distributed environment. They're stand-alone junk as far as I'm concerned.

Um, ok. Have you actually used one since 2001? They're a bit past Appletalk these days.

[HangnJudge]

Mac users are not rabid liberals,
They tend to cut across the political landscape
They generally don't want anyone to tell them how to do things.
They have their own, I believe better, ideas
btw... Using President Bush's picture was a great move

but It is hard to accept Gore being on their Board
The President should always be appropriately addressed
and Jobs gets on my nerves sometimes.

[Sonny M]

You may laugh, but Karl Rove is a huge Machead, and in love with Apple.

LOL

I think Steve Jobs and co, probably get sick thinking about how much Rove did using Apple software.

For the record, I use a P.C., with all due respect to Rove, Apple ain't my thing.

........yet.

[zarf]

Apple is not using the presidents image. If they are, I'd like to see the ad.

[Swordmaker]

A very strange Apple PING!

If you want on or off, Freepmail me.

[Swordmaker]

As a computer professional, there is nothing I hate worse than trying to make an Apple computer work in a networked, shared, distributed environment.

Strange... As a computer professional, I have absolutely no trouble networking OSX Macintoshes in a networked, shared, distributed environment.

[general_re]

They aren't - the text is from Apple, but the picture of Bush does not appear on the Apple website. The picture only appears alongside the text on this blogger's site.

[durasell]

They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.


Sometimes. Other times they just paint the wall with their feces and scream about centipedes eating their testicles...

[af_vet_rr]

I also find it interesting that the caption for the ad refers to him only as "Bush," not by "President" or even "Mr."

Considering that even many Republicans/Conservatives do the same thing, I'm not sure why it'd be an issue. The days where everybody referred to the President as "President" or "Mr." have long passed. I even found myself doing it when Reagan, errr President Reagan was in office, and even with Nixon, err President Nixon ;-)

[AQGeiger]

I know all that. I'm a devoted Mac user. I just found the ad curious, that's all.

[glorgau]

They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.

And then we fire them if they cross an executive vice president.