Science & Tech Quote by Steve Jobs

Jobs is selling a fantasy that Silicon Valley still can’t quit: the garage as a weapon. By pitting “three people” against “200 people at Microsoft,” he turns headcount into dead weight and frames bigness as a kind of technical obesity. The rhetoric is blunt, almost gleefully absolutist (“literally”), because the point isn’t precision; it’s momentum. He’s trying to make inevitability feel like common sense.

The context matters. Jobs is speaking from the era when “objects” meant object-oriented software and reusable components, a promised shortcut out of bloated, bespoke code. His bet is that modularity doesn’t just improve engineering; it rewires power. If small teams can assemble sophisticated products faster, the old advantage of large corporations - scale, process, layers of review - flips into a liability. That’s not just a technical claim; it’s an ideological one. Innovation belongs to the insurgents.

The subtext is also a warning shot at corporate buyers, not just rival engineers. “Save them so much money… or cost them so much money if they miss it” is classic Jobsian leverage: desire plus fear of being left behind. He’s invoking the executive nightmare of irrelevance and promising that corporations will “fuel” the revolution because their budgets will inevitably chase whatever threatens them. In other words: the rebels build it, the suits bankroll it, and the market rewrites the rules.