Stealing from Gindy, and Getting Technobloggy


Sometimes I'm just so danged creative that I bestow multiple medals upon my personage for my wowie-zowie creativity.

In my prior post, which quoted from my post at freedomofchoice.com, I used the term "insanely great."

QUESTION: From whom did I steal this phrase?

As Gindy would say, Answer in the comment section.

From the Ontario Empoblog

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Ontario Emperor said…
Steven Jobs, who among other things created the Macintosh. "Insanely great" is a phrase associated with the Macintosh, which was (partially) Jobs' baby.

From Glen Engel Cox, quoted at amazon.com:

...When the Macintosh was introduced in 1984, I had to have it. It was the computer built "for the rest of us." Never mind that I could have had everything I needed in a computer--word processing program, a few games--for $$$, as soon as I sat down in front of the Macintosh, my life changed. The Macintosh, and the entire graphical user interface concept, was truly "insanely great," as Steven Levy quotes Steve Jobs, former chairman of Apple Computers. In his new book, Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything, Levy reveals how and why the Macintosh had such an impact on the world....

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