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One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.

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Steve Jobs
Age: 56 †
Born: 1955
Born: February 24
Died: 2011
Died: October 5
Computer Scientist
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Steven Paul Jobs
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