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Conspiracy is optimistic!

When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.

- Steve Jobs on television in 1996.

You watch television to turn your brain off and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on.

- Steve Jobs in 2004.

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