From the Archives: A Revealing Interview With Steve Jobs : Rolling Stone

That's from Steve Jobs in 1994, and look what he has done today. The hardware is a bonus, the key is really the software.

The problem is, in hardware you can't build a computer that's twice as good as anyone else's anymore. Too many people know how to do it. You're lucky if you can do one that's one and a third times better or one and a half times better. And then it's only six months before everybody else catches up. But you can do it in software. As a matter of fact, I think that the leap that we've made is at least five years ahead of anybody.

[From From the Archives: A Revealing Interview With Steve Jobs : Rolling Stone]

But in the end, OO hasn't taken over the world yet (ok, it is a tad easier to write with NS* than CF*, but that's not what he had described back then).