Famous Quotes & Sayings

The farm will give younger kids an idea of where the apples they eat come from, where the eggs that Mom feeds them at home come from, before she buys them in the store. Having to dig for potatoes in the sand will make kids realize that it takes some effort to get to some foods,

India is not Iran. You can't compare apple with pears.

David Pogue

Incredibly, Apple has persuaded Disney, which owns ABC, to make available all episodes of five TV series, including 'Lost,' 'Desperate Housewives' and 'Thats So Raven.' Each show costs $1.99 an easy impulse buy if you missed an episode. They play back beautifully, with no network logo in the corner, no yearlong wait for the DVD, and no commercials. (One 43-minute 'hour' of TV takes 12 minutes to download with my cable modem, and about two minutes to transfer to the iPod over its U.S.B. 2.0 cable.) ...That Mr. Jobs persuaded Disney to dip its pinky toe into these waters is an impressive development and a very promising sign.

In 1978, when Vickie and I married, I weighed 190 pounds, but was on a never-ending yo-yo rollercoaster ride, ... My weight bloomed, with my wife's good cooking that included a particularly good-tasting meal of roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy and apple crumb pie ... a meal I've not had in a long time, but it was so good, I can still smell it in my memory.

In my experience-- which is also the experience of some of my peers- Apple has been very slow to respond to reported security vulnerabilities. It expects security researchers to wait indefinitely to release the vulnerabilities and offers no incentive for them to do so.

I'm less devoted to PCs than into the disdain of Apple. Apple users are so arrogant and evangelical about their choice.

Despite a lack of hints from the company, we believe it is useful to hypothesize on new initiatives Apple may have in the works and take a look at which initiatives, if any, make sense for the company, ... We believe Apple has a foundation in place to be the hub for consumer digital media.

Desktop is a very small piece of our business, and it's going away. Our only customer is Apple (for laptops), and they are switching to Intel sometime next year.

Consumers don't really want to carry around more devices than they have to. Everyone has a mobile phone. To get music onto the phone is a big deal for the music industry. Why does Apple care? I think it's because they want to protect their turf. If they can't own the device, they can at least own the relationship. That's a big deal since Apple's the incumbent.

YouTube clips get millions, billions of hits. Reality TV programs have their own channels. How can movies attempt to compete with these kinds of numbers? And do we even need to? Are we scaring ourselves by unnecessary comparisons, by not comparing apples with apples?

The object is jobs, Apple would be in Coyote Valley instead of Cupertino.

That's really what's interesting about Apple, is they look at our technology in a very Apple way.

Rob Enderle

The big unanswered question in the market is whether Apple hardware could successfully sell with Windows on it, and by successful, I mean be competitive to a degree that it could grow Apple's hardware share massively.

The biggest reason is that Microsoft has a much harder job to do. They need to be compatible with an army of devices and different types of software and different hardware platforms. Apple only has to be true to itself, and because of that the development process is multiple times more efficient for Apple.

Fred Anderson

Strong demand for our professional products combined with superb operational efficiency resulted in very strong earnings. Apple finished the quarter with $3.6 billion in cash and short-term investments.

The bar lights up and can turn red, green, blue, you name it. So if you are sipping a Cosmo, bang, the bar will turn red, an apple martini, bang, turns green.

These tribes have the right to participate in the process even if they hired a bad apple and then fired him.

Not very many companies are bold enough to shoot their best-selling product at the peak of its popularity. That's what Apple just did.

Tim Bajarin

It's not an accident. This is something Apple works at. Apple has the longest history of doing this.

It's never been easy being an Apple partner and it hasn't gotten any easier over the past few years. Apple has a long history of doing direct sales, and the fact is, they're actually pretty good at it. What you have to do as an independent is to look at the next set of things you can do. How can you out-service Apple when they already provide a high level of service?

It's really not an Apples to Apples comparison, if you will.

It's a nice crop of apples out there. The apples are a little smaller because of the lack of rain, but maybe a little sweeter because of the warm dry weather.

It represents a big win for Apple and the Mac platform. But Apple doesn't represent a threat to AOL's business. Apple isn't a media company; it's not in online services. It's not the same threat as when Microsoft wanted interoperability.

It's a huge departure. It's a big deal. But it's tied to their business model: Apple is a hardware company.

Rob Enderle

It's very critical to Apple that they get this .NET blessing, otherwise they're going to get forced out of the corporate network.

Kevin Long

It's true that this security update does not translate into Macs that are invulnerable. However, Apple has put some things in place to assist users in detecting questionable files... there's no need to freak out about this.

It's not that surprising that Apple wasn't up to par because they went through the transition from Power PC (chips) to Intel.

Tamsin Greig

I know women at work who don't talk about having a baby because they don't want to upset the apple cart, but unless people know what the problems are, why should they engage with it?

I like Apple Computer. I notice it's down a little bit (Friday). I think this company has a good future. I think people are beginning to respect the fact this is probably the most innovative of the PC companies, away from the corporate war, so I'd be a buyer of Apple,

That's something a lot of PC makers are struggling with today and it's something Apple has done really well.

It's still several years before carriers come close to emulating the success Apple has had in digital music.

It?s sort of a wake-up call for Apple users. Everybody focuses on Windows, but there are viruses for other operating systems.

It's not a recipe for piracy. It's a recipe for competition, which is what Apple really doesn't like.