Famous Quotes & Sayings

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,

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

Eric Schmidt

Google's architectural model around broadband and services and so forth plays very well to the powerful devices and services Apple is doing. We're a perfect back end to the problems that they're trying to solve.

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.

Bojana Novakovic

I dont have a television. All I have is Netflix and Apple TV and Hulu.

Brian Regan

I went to the juice isle, I learned something. Cranberries are taking over everything. What do you got, apples? Put some cranberrise in there, make it 50/50. Cran-apple. Grapes? Cran-grape. Mangos? Cran-mango. Pork chops? Cran-chop!

Beverly Lewis

The tarter the apple, the tastier the cider.

Eddie Izzard

This is a world that's big enough for everyone. I like that message in that comes out of John Lasseter, and it comes out Pixar, it comes out of the Apple, Google, the Ben and Jerry's thing. These are American companies that send that message around that is good, that is healthy. And everyone goes, "That's the America I always believed in before Watergate."

Audre Lorde

...oppression is as American as apple pie...

Arthur Rock

Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.

Benjamin Franklin

The rotten apple spoils his companion.

Arthur D. Levinson

Apple is always focused on out-innovating itself... and that is something I am very proud to be a part of.

Steve Jobs

We heard that Apple was dying, that Apple can't survive. Every time we convince people we've accomplished something at one level, they come up with something new. We've convinced them that we've taken care of last month's question.

Bill Evans

Yes, Steve will be at Apple Expo with other members of Apple's executive team.

Bill Evans

Yes, Steve Jobs will be at Apple Expo with other members of Apple's executive team,

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.

Jane Hirshfield

The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us.

Lea Michele

When I was a little kid, my mother and I used to watch the 'Golden Globes' and I would dress up and she would get sparkling apple cider and we would make a tray of hors d'oeuvres and watch it together. And I would get up and make a pretend speech.

Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.

Martina McBride

I always have apples and fruit in the house. It's easier to eat something healthy if it's within reach. I also have yogurt, cheese and crackers, and raw almonds.

Nathan Myhrvold

One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my cookbook, frankly.

Alan Kay

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

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.

Charles Lamb

What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of the sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.

When you think of a company building its brand, you automatically think of things like Apple or Sony?larger companies where the company's name is really the brand. When I say Kraft, you probably think of macaroni.

We're not going to mix the apples and oranges yet,

Fred Anderson

We remain focused on our primary goal of returning Apple to sustainable profitability,

Bob Iger

We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows.

Samuel Coleridge

Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,/ Whether the summer clothe the general earth/ With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing / Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch / Of mossy apple tree.