Robert Glenister: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

If you could edit your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Robert Glenister said elsewhere, not written here

That I wasn’t quite as arrogant when I got successful.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 July 2022 source ↗

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Jessica Brown Findlay English actress

My password. [In 2014, Brown Findlay’s iCloud account was hacked.]

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 March 2021 source ↗

Dermot O'Leary British-Irish television presenter

I had my heart broken a lot in my teens, but I'm not sure I'd change it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 September 2014 source ↗

Jack Whitehall English comedian, actor, presenter and writer

All of my hairstyles from the age of 16 to 25.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 April 2023 source ↗

Steve Jobs Co-founder and chief executive of Apple; co-founder of NeXT; chief executive of Pixar

But the market was changing. The industry was changing. The scale was changing. And in the end we knew we would be either the last company to make it or the first to not make it. We were right on the edge. We thought we would be the last one that made it, but we were wrong. We were the first one that didn't. We put an end to the companies that tried to do that. We certainly made our fair share of mistakes, but in the end I think we should have taken a bit longer to realize the world was changing and just gone on to be a software company right off the bat.

Recorded Daniel Morrow, Smithsonian Institution Oral and Video Histories, for the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program, 20 April 1995 source ↗