Re: Ok I could not help
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What he said wasn’t a grand idea. People who agreed with him or thought like him liked what he said. This doesn’t mean they didn’t think like this to begin with. For example, I have always thought like this. He didn’t inspire me to think differently. It is a mere acknowledgement of my thoughts that were already there.
Let’s talk about logic now.
It is not a fallacy because there is no premise, or a conclusion. If he said, ‘you will think like others if you are trapped by dogma’ or ‘you will not think like others if you are not trapped by dogma’. These have a premise and a conclusion. Another thing is, Jobs is basically defining what dogma is in the latter part of his statement. He is just saying, ‘don’t be trapped by dogma.’ What is the premise of this statement? Calling it a logical fallacy makes no sense. What you are doing however is called fallacist’s fallacy.
At best, you could call it a paradoxical statement.