Category: Quotes

“Success requires focus. That pretty much sums up why Microsoft hasn’t been very successful for a long time, and why Apple has.”

— The Macalope

“I guess ‘The New MagSafe’ wasn’t available.”

– Lex Friedman

“Do not trust your own brain for your memory. Do not trust it for what you “feel like” you should be doing. Trust only the reminder app.”

— Julien Smith

“A review should be honest to people, not ‘fair.’”

— Matt Buchanan

“The problems of airport security don’t rise to the level of becoming an election-year issue, but this isn’t about airport security anymore. This is about getting scanned and frisked at a ballgame, the train station, and outside Congress.”

— Christopher Elliott

“Faith that the data will be valuable is the opium of the executive class.”

— Brent Simmons

“That’s not all these apps do, but it’s one benefit of using them, and it indicates how pathetic much of our web design is when our visitors increasingly turn to third party applications simply to read our sites’ content.”

— Jeffrey Zeldman

“People scoff at spending 99¢ on an app that took months to make, yet hurl money at Kickstarter projects that, technically, are vaporware.”

— David Chartier (@chartier) May 17, 2012

“I frequently find myself in an unpopular position in the entertainment industry: I believe in network neutrality, I don’t believe that piracy is the end of the world as we know it (I particularly don’t believe that a download or file shared automatically equals a lost sale*) and I don’t believe in crippling the Internet to protect a business model that desperately needs to change.”

— Wil Wheaton

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

— Bertrand Russell

“The answer is simple, young one – because common sense doesn’t get page views.”

— Harry Marks

“Getting acquired while producing no revenue is like performing a card trick without the deck of cards: the magician simply explains how magical the trick is, never actually showing it.”

— Nick Bilton

“If only buzz were revenue, Tumblr would be bigger than Walmart.”

— Rebecca Dana

“Google planned to take 33% of the total tablet market in 2011. Yet they barely have 33% of just the Android tablet market.”

— MG Siegler

Every page with web comments should be sponsored by antidepressants.

— Dave Pell (@davepell) April 26, 2012

“Software can do anything, but sometimes it is the combination of hardware and software that yields new, unexpected results that take advantage of the interplay of bits and guts.”

— Federico Viticci

“The only reason to use the word ‘pivot,’ in its new Valley context, is to hide something with language — largely, to avoid talking about failure. Your app didn’t fail, you pivoted. Sorry, you failed.”

— Matt Buchanan

“My MacBook Air is now my ‘desktop’ and my iPad is now my ‘laptop’.”

— Shawn Blanc

“Finding tablet-oriented apps for Android is a hunt, a chore, and a grind.”

— Sascha Segan