Category: Quotes

“After decade of being bitter rivals, Apple and Microsoft now seem to have aligned interests. But you don’t have to wonder what’s going on, it’s very apparent: they both hate Google.”

— MG Siegler

“This tank is a good tool to solve the problem of parking in the wrong place”

— Mayor Zuokas

“But also don’t delude yourself into thinking that tweeting and facebooking are revolutionary acts. They’re about as revolutionary as watching CNN.”

— Dave Winer

“When’s the last time you had a creative breakthrough in a Monday morning meeting? Creativity springs from unexpected places and sources — from a walk in the park to the rare block of uninterrupted time — so thinking more broadly about the intrinsic motivations (autonomy, learning, etc.) that facilitate good work is likely to have a far happier outcome than the “latest” innovation in cubicles.”

— Allison Arrieff

“It’s a corrupting revenue model.”

— John Gruber

“For those of you under the age of 25, a magazine is a blog made out of trees”

— Mike Elgan

“The iPad didn’t enter the tablet market. It created the tablet market.”

— John Gruber

“RIM, the people — your customers — have spoken. They don’t like your products.”

— Jim Dalrymple

“Perhaps I’m wrong and praying or hoping that it will all work out, or generally being a nice person is what really “does the trick”, but why not actually get off your ass and do something tangible too while you’re at it.”

— Benny Lewis

“Worth noting: people who work at Apple think a Teva makes a suitable skateboarding shoe because they see the world just a little bit different from me and you.”

— Adam Lisagor

“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.”

— Warren Buffett

“You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.”

— Tom Ford

[via Om Malik]

“Because ultimately, people may come for the difference, but they stay for the stuff.”

— Mike Monteiro

“If it works out as they hope, the result is that we’ll wind up thinking of this social network at least as much as we do about web search when we think of “Google”.”

— John Gruber

“Strategy is often in the things you decide not to do.”

— Anonymous RIM Executive

“Fundamentally, Google is a utility. No one wants to hang out at their power company.”

— Tom Coates

“Facebook is an example of Madoff entrepreneurship. I win big, everybody else loses. Sure it’s viral. But it’s viral deception.”

— John Robb

“I can always tell a long-time Windows user from a Mac user — Windows folks put two spaces after a period.”

— Brent Simmons

“Everyone thinks that everyone reading on the iPad wants Flipboard. If I wanted it, I would read the web using Flipboard.”

— Dave Winer

“But to value every company as if they are the next Google, rather than valuing them all as if one of them might be, is pretty much the definition of a bubble.”

— Tim Worstall