"With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution"
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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.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Jobs, Steve. (2026, January 17). With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/with-our-technology-with-objects-literally-three-27261/
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Jobs, Steve. "With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/with-our-technology-with-objects-literally-three-27261/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/with-our-technology-with-objects-literally-three-27261/. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
