Oscar_Cunningham comments on Rationality Quotes October 2011 - Less Wrong
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There's a nice (but entirely false) story that Apple was named as a tribute to Turing (cf. the cross in Christianity). It's cool that the apple has so many rationalist associations.
It's false? I want a source, please! (Also, good parallel. I might start wearing an apple around my neck and hanging one on my bedroom wall.)
Hmmm, turns out it's much murkier than I remembered. Here's an interview with Wozniak:
Other sugestions I've heard are that it was named after Apple records of the Beatles (with whom they'd later have copyright issues), or that it was fashioned to beat Atari in the phone book. Incidentally, here's the first Apple logo, featuring Newton.