The Quotes
“Why doesn’t Google buy up a mobile device company and offer their own phone rather than resell a Samsung handset?”
∞“It’s always a sign of trouble when you’ve built something you don’t want to use yourself.”
∞“Facebook Home was flat-out badly designed: it’s designed for optimal input and failed to consider real-world usage.”
∞“In short, the league owners as a whole don’t want to set a precedent of paying for their own stadiums.”
∞“Twitter is a deliberate abstention. Somehow I hate the idea of there always being, in the back of my mind, this little voice saying: ‘Oh, I should tweet about this.’”
∞“The way they make these waiters carry around 20 pounds of salad and breadsticks on giant trays is just silly. They should just push around wheelbarrows or something and use shovels to scoop it directly into people’s faces.”
∞“I may buy a lot of stuff, but should I only be viewed as “a consumer” in the eyes of the government and my democracy?”
∞“I’m starting to learn to let the small things be small, and the big things be big.”
∞“Empathize, but refuse to be terrorized. Instead, be indomitable — and support leaders who are as well. That’s how to defeat terrorists.”
∞“All too often, the ones who are aggressively seeking the theory of the day don’t have a lot to show for what they did yesterday.”
∞“Ev and Biz have shown they can build amazing services, but they haven’t proven to build services that are profitable.”
∞“People will (and should) judge the shipping product and not some promises, so what you’ll get is what we shipped, and we need to be confident about it, and we are — all is good.”
∞“This, from the company that shitcanned Google Reader because they wanted to ‘focus’.”
∞“To me, there’s nothing worse than waking up and realizing that the sun’s already been up for awhile.”
∞“Welcome to a world where Google knows exactly what sort of porn you all like, and more about your interests than your spouse does.”
∞“An undercover TSA inspector with an improvised explosive device stuffed in his pants got past two security screenings at Newark Airport — including a pat-down — and was cleared to get on board a commercial flight, sources told The Post yesterday.”
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