Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Rushkoff

The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every piece of hardware or software in the digital universe. To code or create for Apple, you follow Apple's rules. If you're even allowed to.

Douglas Rushkoff

Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to have, to have is to hold, and to hold is to show off.

Douglas Rushkoff

Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded through the iPhone store - giving Apple control over everything people put on to the devices they thought they owned.

Don DeLillo

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

Cyrano de Bergerac

For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which diffuses about it self that natural Heat which preserves its Globe: And in the Onion, the Germ is the little Sun of that little World, which vivifies and nourishes the vegetative Salt of that little mass.

Colonel Sanders

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.

David Letterman

Hillary Clinton could use one of these Apple Watches. She could hook it up to her secret email account. If you want to contact Hillary, she's at hillary@pantsuit.com.

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings.

Jobs has said nary a word on behalf of important social issues, reserving his talents of persuasion for selling Apple products.

It behooves Apple to protect its position because the question is 'How high is up?' in terms of what Apple Corps wants. It's better for them to roll the dice.

He is so grateful for the work that most of the police officers did. There's always a few bad apples in every basket.

Paul Thurrott

To explain this change to employees, Microsoft hosted an internal event with CEO Steve Ballmer, chairman Bill Gates, Johnson, Allchin, Raikes, and Bach. Most of the discussion and Q & A that happened that day is largely irrelevant to Nexus readers, but the company did take one impromptu question about competition with Apple Computer that I thought you'd enjoy. Here's a transcript of that portion of the session, and some photos taken from a video of the event,

Jen Lancaster

Here's a bit of Discovery Channel for you - apples don't last forever. They can stay fresh for a long time, especially when refrigerated, but definitely not from December into the month of March.

Hats off to Apple Valley. They played excellent.

I think the (PPI and core PPI) numbers will make the Fed a bit more comfortable that the status quo is fine, ... The core PPI is the one they really care about. It's really telling us that the inflation story is not running away from us. That doesn't mean the debate won't be heated. But this number does tilt the apple cart.

Ray Johnson

I thought at the start of the year we had a chance to maybe get Apple (Valley). I know it's early, and these scores were quite high today, but it was a nice win for us.

We take so much for granted and you can't help but to go out to these people. They need some basic supplies... water. My god if I could get some of the local orchards to throw a truck load of apples into it. Anything they could use. Just get it down there.

Will Carleton

Underneath an apple-treeSat a maiden and her lover;And the thoughts within her heYearned, in silence, to discover.Round them danced the sunbeams bright,Green the grass-lawn stretched before themWhile the apple blossoms whiteHung in rich profusion o'er them.

Andy Hertzfeld

I think Apple would be more of an ordinary company without him--it would be much less audacious, daring and artistic.

I think Apple did the right thing. The fact that a script gets executed automatically had to be fixed immediately. They just have to go further.

It has been difficult for competitors to displace Apple because they haven't offered anything different.

Jennifer Lee

For most of our young lives, my family was baffled by elementary school bake sales, to which we were told to bring in goodies to sell. While other kids arrived bearing brownies, chocolate chip cookies, and apple pies, Chinese families didn't bake.

If what Apple provides as a hardware platform is interesting to the open-source community, it would not surprise me very much that a group of people will find a way to port Linux to that hardware in short order.

Annalee Newitz

If we lose bees, we may be looking at losing apples and oranges. We may be looking at losing a great deal of other crops, as well, and other animals that depend on those crops.

Christopher Lee

I wouldn't say that Mac OS X is a make or break product for Apple, but it's close. But it can move Apple into spaces where it's not been, or been strong, before. At MYOB, we look at our job as being translators: translating the language of business into the language of accounting. We need to use tools given to us by the authors of operating systems. The Mac side and OS X gives us a tool set that lets us do our jobs as translators better than any other tool set on the planet. It's up to us to use those tools to move up to the next level.

Gene Luen Yang

I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling.

Yoko Ono

If we had a big Apple Records lawyers meeting or something, and we were sitting there and John was bored to death, he would start to (draw). The lawyers would later say.

Gray Davis

Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here.

Bill Atkinson

You could summarize everything I did at Apple was making tools to empower creative people. 'QuickDraw' empowered all these other programmers to now be able to sling stuff on the screen. The 'Window Manager,' 'Event Manager,' and 'Menu Manager.' Those are things that I worked on that were empowering other people.

Bill Atkinson

I have realized over time that I missed the mark with HyperCard. I grew up in a box-centric culture at Apple. If I'd grown up in a network-centric culture, like Sun, HyperCard might have been the first Web browser. My blind spot at Apple prevented me from making HyperCard the first Web browser.

There are a lot of reasons why Apple -- and all companies -- need to make these processes as transparent as possible. More basic though, not having them or trying to circumvent them shows a lack of respect for their customers.

Donny Osmond

Sometimes when you have multimedia, people use it too much. It has to be a tool and not the end product, if you can use it as a tool. The same thing apples when you are recording. We had this problem in the 80's, we got so computerized there was no heart and soul in the music anymore.

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