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I'd have not sung along with Yellow Submarine in that infant school hall.
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Boarding school. It was horrible.
Steve Jobs
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But the market was changing. The industry was changing. The scale was changing. And in the end we knew we would be either the last company to make it or the first to not make it. We were right on the edge. We thought we would be the last one that made it, but we were wrong. We were the first one that didn't. We put an end to the companies that tried to do that. We certainly made our fair share of mistakes, but in the end I think we should have taken a bit longer to realize the world was changing and just gone on to be a software company right off the bat.
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That Sparks predates the Beatles and it’s kind of all too obvious where they got a lot of their inspiration.
I would have partied a little bit harder in my 20s.
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