Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Douglas Adams

I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end".

Cristiano Ronaldo

I miss Manchester, especially the apple crumble and custard they served at Carrington after training.

Angela Ahrendts

I got my MBA at Burberry, but I will get my PhD at Apple.

Chuck Klosterman

That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths.

Anne Bancroft

Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

Anna Kendrick

We should be thanking Apple for launching the $10,000 'apple watch' as the new gold standard in douchebag detection.

Andy Hertzfeld

I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.

Andy Hertzfeld

I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II

Andy Hertzfeld

I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.

Andy Hertzfeld

In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before

Andrew Marvell

What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.

Andy Andrews

Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before the apple ever fell on Newton's head. But once it did, and he understood it, then we as a society were free to harness this principle to create, among other things, airline flight.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.