“The only problem with Microsoft,” Steve Jobs famously said, “is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste.” But critically:

And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.

Here’s Marc Levoy providing a nice counterpoint, talking about art history & its relationship with modern computational photography:

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