Jean-Louis Gassée é um empresário francês. Trabalhou na Apple de 1981 a 1990, primeiro na filial francesa, e mais tarde como Chefe de Desenvolvimento de Produto nos Estados Unidos. Após deixar a Apple, criou sua própria empresa, a Be Inc., que concebeu e comercializou o sistema operacional BeOS.
Gassée deixou a companhia em janeiro de 2002. Desde então, foi por pouco tempo o Presidente e CEO de Computer Access Technology Corporation e é hoje um partenário de Allegis Capital, uma empresa de Palo Alto, na Califórnia.
“Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law.”
NetWorker, November/December 1996
Commenting on the gestures vs. speech debate in computing.
globalandmail.com http://web.archive.org/web/20080706162404/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060602.wappleberry0603/BNStory/Business/home, Simon Avery, June 2006
Attributed
Apple Confidential: The Real Story of Apple Computer, 1999
As President of Apple Products, speaking on the Apple logo
“I didn't realise those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped.”
Andy Hertzfeld in Revolution in the Valley
On seeing Steve Jobs park in a disabled parking space.
Jean-Louis says morally handicapped when he tells this story.
Attributed
Sandy Reed, "Gassee's dual-processor BeBox challenges passe PCs", InfoWorld,
Personal Computer World, July 1990
On the user experience of the Apple Macintosh
Wired, May 1996
Repeated quotation, on many issues, including Microsoft and the BeBox
