Here’s to the crazy ones…
Sue and Fiona just got back from the Apple Bus tour and they have enthusiastically been sharing with me their experiences. One of the things that I enjoyed the most was the plaque on the wall at the Apple briefing centre. Here is the photo.
The text reads as follows:
“ Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They are not fond of rules. And the have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can not do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They Explore. They Create. They Inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels? We make tools for these kinds of people. While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. Think Different. ”
This came from an advertisement from Apple in the 1990’s. Here is the youtube video clip. Its worth watching. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvn_Ied9t4M
I like it, but I wonder would these ones fit in at school. The crazy ones? I wonder.
June 14th, 2009 at 5:52 am
Yes, here’s to the crazy ones indeed! I laminated the posters Apple released in the 1990s with that campaign and had them displayed around my classroom. My 11 year old son has the one of Einstein hanging on the wall in his bedroom. We all need to be reminded about how so many of the world’s leaders and innovators didn’t “fit the mold” when it came to what others might have expected of them.
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