Apple was failing so their current culture wasn't working and should not be passed on. He wanted a clean break. Plus Apple's past experience was traumatic for him personally. Even if they had been successful without him he'd not want the reminder for that reason alone.

He just canceled the project, at a time when Apple was hemorrhaging money. It didn't already exist. It was going to exist.

He killed a lot of things to save Apple.

I wouldn't read too much into it.

> I believe he thought Apple shouldn’t live off its past.

For the same reason, Apple doesn't celebrate anniversaries.

Do you have a source for that. Would be nice to have that in my list :)

>Shortly after Steve Jobs returned to Apple, he canceled plans to create a corporate museum and gave Stanford all of the archives in 1997.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidcoursey/2012/03/31/more-th...

This fact was included in Walter Isaacson's bio, describing his return to Apple.