<story><title>Stephen Wolfram on Steve Jobs: A Few Memories</title><url>http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-a-few-memories/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>steveb</author><text>NeXT sold maybe 50,000 systems in 5 years, less than the number of PCs that a typical large company has stuffed in cubicles.&lt;p&gt;And from that small install base, emerged the first Web browser, Doom, and Mathematica.&lt;p&gt;They were amazing, if flawed products. Every system came with Mathematica, a full dictionary and the complete works of Shakespeare.&lt;p&gt;I remember having to go use Windows NT after NeXT failed in the market. And I remember, ten years later, holding the first iPhone in my hand and knowing where it came from.</text></comment>
<story><title>Stephen Wolfram on Steve Jobs: A Few Memories</title><url>http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-a-few-memories/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dy</author><text>I grew up in Champaign, IL, where Wolfram is based and Steven Wolfram had a reputation for being difficult and an introvert - but the more I read or see about him, the more I find him inspiring and quite brilliant.&lt;p&gt;His story was also touching because it shows how Steve Jobs was able to touch people&apos;s lives in significant ways even through the briefest of interactions.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m not surprised there is such &quot;cult&quot; behavior behind Apple - if there was ever a cult leader I would want to believe in, it would be Steve.</text></comment>