Category: Quotes

“People who don’t know a damn thing about your business can correctly tell you your model is broken without being able to tell you how to fix it.”

— Watts Martin

“‘My new iOS app uses Facebook for logins’ is the new ‘It only runs on Windows’”

— Dan Benjamin

“I just don’t feel comfortable paying for an iPad or web publication, no matter how good it is, and then having ads shoved down my throat.”

— Marco Arment

“But then you look at the general aesthetics of OSX and iOS…I don’t know, it’s really confusing how the same company, especially one that had such strong design leadership, could produce something as beautifully spare as iOS and something as cheesy as the Game Center app.”

— Jason Kottke

“You see, I think he better than anyone understood that while ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily missed, so easily compromised, so easily just squished.”

— Jonathan Ive

“The roads became much safer when BlackBerry stopped working.”

— Brig Gen Al Harethi

“When you “open” your device and/or software, shit always finds a way in.”

— MG Siegler

“The key to iOS’s success is that you can figure almost everything out just by looking at it.”

— John Gruber

“I want to put a ding in the universe.”

— Steve Jobs

“Monolithic, inflexible and unable to keep up with the shifts and turns of disruptive technology, once great companies like Kodak can’t survive without exhaustive restructuring.”

— David DiSalvo

“It’s people who deliver innovation.”

— Tim Cook

“Color reinvents itself as Facebook photo browser. Nice pivot, idiots.”

— Mike Rundle

“Money is how you keep score, because it’s the one thing whose value everyone agrees upon.”

— John Gruber

“Google, however, is still hobbled by having no obvious way to let you pay for quality products on Android.”

— Charles Arthur

“Microsoft’s problem is that the public isn’t stupid.”

— MG Siegler

“Spanning an amazing arc of thirty years, the company with the anti-establishment image has become the most disciplined, best-managed high-tech giant — and arbiter of taste.”

— Jean-Louis Gassée

“Your best idea might be the one people laugh at.”

— Bernadette Jiwa

“Consumers want a complete tablet experience, not one that’s ‘coming soon.’”

— Kevin C. Tofel

“If we don’t want our young people to tear apart our communities then don’t let people in power tear apart the values that hold our communities together.”

— Russell Brand

“You can be highly productive on the iPad if you’re creating something different from spreadsheets and slide decks — the problem is, that something hasn’t been invented yet.”

— Khoi Vinh