Category: Quotes

“Stable is that step backwards between success and failing.”

— Pete Campbell

(Note: It’s good to have Mad Men back.)

“We need a Consumer Reports to protect us from Consumer Reports.”

— MG Siegler

“iPad 3 reviews that complain ‘all they did was improve the display’ are clueless bordering on stupidity. Tablets are pretty much by definition all display; nothing is more fundamental to the tablet experience than the quality of the display.”

— Jeff Atwood

“When the software provides the metaphor for the device, every tablet lives and dies by the display and what’s on that display.”

— Ryan Block

“A product has to be genuinely better. This requires real discipline, and that’s what drives us — a sincere, genuine appetite to do something that is better.”

— Jonathan Ive

“When at home, I did a FaceTime call with my siblings who also live overseas. I handed over the iPad to my mom. She had this look of amazement, one of pure unadulterated joy as she chatted with her grandson.”

— Om Malik

“The only people I know that use Google+ regularly are people who work at Google (and Robert Scoble).”

— MG Siegler

“But I don’t ever walk there. I just use their software, because it’s good.”

— Brent Simmons

“When my 3-year-old notices I’ve seen him doing something wrong, he always stops doing it, hoping the whole issue will just go away. Google seems to have the same misconception.”

— Stephen Hackett

“The factors that appear to make a business successful change from week to week, article to article, tweet to tweet, blog post to blog post.”

— Alex Payne

“Congratulations Facebook, you’ve built THE KILLER BIRTHDAY APP.”

— Jake Levine

“The iPhone is the most useful computer in the world.”

— Chuck Skoda

“When they say “the iPad isn’t a PC” what they mean “there’s no way I would or could give up my PC and use an iPad instead.””

— Shawn Blanc (@shawnblanc) February 2, 2012

“Traditional PCs require that you come to them on their terms, overcoming numerous physical and intellectual abstractions. The iPad was the first computer built to meet you on your terms.”

— Chuck Skoda

“I have a Kindle that I use to collect dust.”

— Jason Kottke

“Google’s feature-creep is creeping me out.”

— Dave Winer

“You tell me I’m biased like it’s an insult, but all I hear is that I’m doing my job.”

— Brad McCarty

“[…] given that the RIAA and MPAA together have a higher douchebag quotient than a Los Angeles BMW dealership.”

— Watts Martin

“My new standard of cool: when I’m hanging out with you, I never see your phone ever ever ever.”

— Scott Simpson (@scottsimpson) June 17, 2010

[via Build & Analyze]