Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Kay

As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

Randall Jahnson

The process for writing for the two mediums is like apples and oranges. Both games and movies strive to tell a narrative story and both mediums are slaves to technology, time and budget; but after that, things are completely different.

Larry Singer

There is a lot of buzz now about Sun like there was about Apple two years ago at the Consumer Electronics Show. Technology is a high fashion industry, and I think we are in fashion again.

Brian Chesky

People went to Dell for the computers, but they go to Apple for everything… That’s the difference between a transactional company and a transformational one.

Bram Stoker

I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.

Dhani Harrison

If you were the first person ever to design an application for the iPhone and you patented it, you would be very, very better off than we are right now, you know? But you've got to be the first one to do it. So I figured that Led Zeppelin or the Stones were going to do it unless we just got on to it. So I got cracking with the guys from Apple.

Dave Barry

The other major kind of computer is the "Apple," which I do not recommend, because it is a wuss-o-rama New-Age computer you basically just plug in and use.

David Pogue

If Apple ever lowers the iPod's price and develops Windows software for it, watch out: the invasion of the iPod people will surely begin in earnest.

Susan Kevorkian

This will offer Apple a way to test the waters for non-music video content,

Elaine Sciolino

Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name 'bicycle.'

Lynn Jurich

For a lot of people, one of the reasons they don't like to work for founders of startups is that they can be sensitive and protective around what they've built. You have an emotional attachment to the early marketing and technology materials, and you don't want to hear that anything's wrong with them.

Jane Austen

... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

Charles Lamb

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

Herbert A. Simon

My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.

Benjamin Hoff

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

Edward Gibbon

Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have no attachment except to the person of their benefactor.

Ben Kugler

She had a personal attachment to it like you wouldn't believe.

Edgar Allan Poe

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The Weeknd

I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

Sue Monk Kidd

I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.

A. S. Byatt

I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.

Tyler Ritter

I grew up in a household that was very close, very open, and always talking about what was going on with each other.

Todrick Hall

I don't know a kid who grew up in the '90s who wasn't obsessed with Disney, and I guess I never grew out of that phase, honestly. It's not just Disney: it's anything that has to do with fairytales for me. I think I just have Peter Pan Syndrome or something.

David Giuntoli

Honestly, I grew up with Disney.

David Guterson

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.

Odette Annable

I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

Elton John

I grew up at my grandmother's house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid.

Helmut Jahn

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.

Alan Turing

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

David Sedaris

I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations.

Camille Paglia

The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

Cathy Guisewite

I've found it's better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.

Bertrand Russell

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

Charles Babbage

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

Charles Babbage

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?