The Steve Jobs quote was from the 1980s. Back then, you really did boot daily (at least; it wasn't uncommon on both Macs and PCs in that era to need to reboot multiple times a day because applications could and did crash the system often).
I remember Mac OS crashing so much I found ways to resume the system from a crash state in some instances by pressing key combos and typing incantations into a shell of some sort.
