Ed Cryer

Rumour; Apple chose its icon in honour of Alan Turing who committed
suicide by eating a cyanide-laced one.

We can't ask Steve Jobs now.
Does anybody know the answer?

Ed

Tom Stiller

In article <jbe553$us1$1@dont-email.me>,
Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote:

> Rumour; Apple chose its icon in honour of Alan Turing who committed
> suicide by eating a cyanide-laced one.
>
> We can't ask Steve Jobs now.
> Does anybody know the answer?
>
According to Isaacson, when he asked Jobs that question, Steve replied
that he wished that he'd thought of that, but hadn't.

--
PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf
of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. -- Ambrose Bierce

Tom Harrington

In article <tom_stiller-0D2B53.16505403122011@news.individual.net>,
Tom Stiller <tom_stiller@yahoo.com> wrote:

> In article <jbe553$us1$1@dont-email.me>,
> Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote:
>
> > Rumour; Apple chose its icon in honour of Alan Turing who committed
> > suicide by eating a cyanide-laced one.
> >
> > We can't ask Steve Jobs now.
> > Does anybody know the answer?
> >
> According to Isaacson, when he asked Jobs that question, Steve replied
> that he wished that he'd thought of that, but hadn't.

Also Rob Janoff, who designed the logo, has described this story as a
legend:
http://creativebits.org/interview/in...gner_apple_log
o

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/

Howard Brazee

On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:42:29 +0000, Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk>
wrote:

>Rumour; Apple chose its icon in honour of Alan Turing who committed
>suicide by eating a cyanide-laced one.

Be careful around cyanide laced icons.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

Tom Harrington

In article <3mfld7lg4vs8rtg1u2sgucat72n2t42smo@4ax.com>,
Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:42:29 +0000, Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk>
> wrote:
>
> >Rumour; Apple chose its icon in honour of Alan Turing who committed
> >suicide by eating a cyanide-laced one.
>
> Be careful around cyanide laced icons.

Good point, the Apple logo is not really intended to be eaten anyway.

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/

Ed Cryer

On 04/12/2011 21:43, Tom Harrington wrote:
> In article<3mfld7lg4vs8rtg1u2sgucat72n2t42smo@4ax.com >,
> Howard Brazee<howard@brazee.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:42:29 +0000, Ed Cryer<ed@somewhere.in.the.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Rumour; Apple chose its icon in honour of Alan Turing who committed
>>> suicide by eating a cyanide-laced one.
>>
>> Be careful around cyanide laced icons.
>
> Good point, the Apple logo is not really intended to be eaten anyway.
>

That's what God said to Adam in Eden.

Ed

Tom Harrington

In article <jbgv3r$870$1@dont-email.me>,
Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote:

> On 04/12/2011 21:43, Tom Harrington wrote:
> > In article<3mfld7lg4vs8rtg1u2sgucat72n2t42smo@4ax.com >,
> > Howard Brazee<howard@brazee.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:42:29 +0000, Ed Cryer<ed@somewhere.in.the.uk>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Rumour; Apple chose its icon in honour of Alan Turing who committed
> >>> suicide by eating a cyanide-laced one.
> >>
> >> Be careful around cyanide laced icons.
> >
> > Good point, the Apple logo is not really intended to be eaten anyway.
>
> That's what God said to Adam in Eden.

If that apple had been laced with cyanide, the problem would have solved
itself.

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/

Ed Cryer

On 05/12/2011 16:40, Tom Harrington wrote:
> In article<jbgv3r$870$1@dont-email.me>,
> Ed Cryer<ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 04/12/2011 21:43, Tom Harrington wrote:
>>> In article<3mfld7lg4vs8rtg1u2sgucat72n2t42smo@4ax.com >,
>>> Howard Brazee<howard@brazee.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:42:29 +0000, Ed Cryer<ed@somewhere.in.the.uk>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Rumour; Apple chose its icon in honour of Alan Turing who committed
>>>>> suicide by eating a cyanide-laced one.
>>>>
>>>> Be careful around cyanide laced icons.
>>>
>>> Good point, the Apple logo is not really intended to be eaten anyway.
>>
>> That's what God said to Adam in Eden.
>
> If that apple had been laced with cyanide, the problem would have solved
> itself.
>

I'm not so sure.
It was the fruit of the tree of carnal knowledge; original sin. And God
got so upset that he not only banished the naughty pair from Eden but he
introduced death too.

God would have done better by being a little less naive. There's always
some snake in Eden; and there was before the Fall too.

Ed

Michelle Steiner

In article <jbj0o9$aad$1@dont-email.me>, Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk>
wrote:

> It was the fruit of the tree of carnal knowledge;

No, it was the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

--
Tea Party Patriots is to Patriotism as
People's Democratic Republic is to Democracy.

Jolly Roger

In article <tph-27043B.09401105122011@localhost>,
Tom Harrington <tph@pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> wrote:

> In article <jbgv3r$870$1@dont-email.me>,
> Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote:
>
> > On 04/12/2011 21:43, Tom Harrington wrote:
> > > In article<3mfld7lg4vs8rtg1u2sgucat72n2t42smo@4ax.com >,
> > > Howard Brazee<howard@brazee.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:42:29 +0000, Ed Cryer<ed@somewhere.in.the.uk>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Rumour; Apple chose its icon in honour of Alan Turing who committed
> > >>> suicide by eating a cyanide-laced one.
> > >>
> > >> Be careful around cyanide laced icons.
> > >
> > > Good point, the Apple logo is not really intended to be eaten anyway.
> >
> > That's what God said to Adam in Eden.
>
> If that apple had been laced with cyanide, the problem would have solved
> itself.

No worries. We'll destroy ourselves soon enough without any help from
above.

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