A biography for John Sculleyhasn’t been written yet.
“I think that Apple has revolutionized every other consumer industry; why not television? The complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated. So it seems exactly the sort of problem that if anyone is going to change the experience of what the first principles are, it is going to be Apple.”
“Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out.”
“Implementers aren't considered bozos anymore.”
“Health care missed the PC and Internet revolutions, but it can't afford to miss the cloud and mobile revolution.”
“In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don't have an answer to that. That's one of the more perplexing problems of society.”
“There are just moments when all the stars are aligned for breakthrough products.”
“If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today.”
“The Mac defined 'personal technology', and the iPhone defines 'intimate technology' as a convergence of communications, content and location.”
“People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.”
“My guess is that Apple won't just pass Microsoft in market capitalization, but will go way beyond it.”
“Apple makes really good products, and Samsung makes really good products. It's really a two-horse race. Where I think Apple is exposed: the price points of Apple's products are just so high by comparison with Samsung's.”
“Health innovation, enabled by digital technologies to build big consumer service brands, is an incredibly interesting, complex problem to work on.”
“Healthcare has been the last major industry that hasn't been touched by technology in terms of productivity and consumer adoption in the way so many other industries have.”
“The only thing I would say is, I think there's a lot of future value in Blackberry, but without experienced people who have run this type of business, and without a strategic plan, it would be really challenging.”
“I didn't appreciate, coming out of corporate America... what it meant to a founder, the creator of the Macintosh, to be asked to step down from the very division that he created to lead the very product that he believed was going to change the world.”
“Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker.”
“Our primary goal in the consumer health service companies I back is helping them create an uncompromisingly great consumer experience.”