“The goal isn’t to get money from a VC, just as the goal isn’t to get into Harvard.”
Category: Quotes
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Quote of the Day: Robert X. Cringely
“Apple and Google will compete like crazy for our data because once they have it we’ll be their customers forever.” -
Quote of the Day: Lessien
“The toddler stage for iOS is over.”— Lessien -
Quote of the Day: David Heinemeier Hansson
“If you can’t figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion?” -
Quote of the Day: David Sparks
“Gold rush or not, nobody wants to get sued.” -
Quote of the Day: Marco Arment
“Microsoft loves losing money with online services, so this should stay free forever… unless they get a new CEO who isn’t crazy about pouring billions into a hole.” -
Quote of the Day: Michael Scott
“It’s always been Apple’s goal to ship something we were proud of and something people would be proud to own, and I think that’s still true from thirty years ago.” -
Quote of the Day: Jason Fried
“When you really want to do something right, which is usually what you should be striving for, you tend to slow down.” -
Quote of the Day: Macho Man
“Best there is… past, present and future! Ohhhhh yeahhhh!”Best there ever was, [RIP](http://www.tmz.com/2011/05/20/randy-savage-car-accident-macho-man-dead-dies-died-killed-wwe-wrestler-florida/).
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Quote of the Day: Dave Caolo
“Fellow notebook aficionados would nod approvingly at the guy writing important things in the same notebook once used by famous alcoholics and a psychotic, self-injurious painter.” -
Quote of the Day: Robert X. Cringely
“Apple isn’t the next Microsoft, you see. Apple is not the next anything because the role it aspires to transcends anything imaginable by Microsoft, ever. Google is the next Microsoft, so Google is seen by Ballmer as the immediate threat — the one he has a hope in hell of actually doing something about.” -
Quote of the Day: Mike Rowe
“A few years from now, an hour with a good plumber — if you can find one — is going to cost more than an hour with a good psychiatrist. At which point we’ll all be in need of both.” -
Quote of the Day: Felix Hernandez
“I don’t try to strike out people, but sometimes they swing and miss.” -
Quote of the Day: Chuck Skoda
“One of the reasons I’m happy Android is around — it’s helping keep malware off my iPhone.”Responding to [this](http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2011/05/10/400-percent-increase-in-android-malware-mobile-security-threats-at-record-high/) report.
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Quote of the Day: Andy Ihnatko
“Microsoft doesn’t have to make back the purchase price. They have to make something of Skype, not from Skype. If they fail to grow as a company, I’m going to conclude that Microsoft has officially and deliberately taken themselves off the list of “A”-list innovators.” -
Quote of the Day: Dave Caolo
“You needn’t sever an ear, retreat to a secluded cabin or stagger through French cafes to realize your creative potential. You must, however, work very hard, expect failure, employ a powerful filter and occasionally abandon your work entirely.”Dave’s issue of the Read & Trust newsletter (no. 5) is simply fantastically written — I found myself nodding along through the entire thing. Great work, you now *need* to subscribe to just check out this one from [Dave](http://52tiger.net/).
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Quote of the Day: President Obama
“We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are. And on nights like this one, we can say to those families who have lost loved ones to al Qaeda’s terror: Justice has been done.” -
Quote of the Day: Marco Arment
“But since they had never used those features, they didn’t know how much they wanted them.”Marco is talking about why he pulled the free version of Instapaper, but I think the above quote applies to so much in life. Like food, until you try it you have no idea how much you may like it (or hate it). ((My wife will probably get a kick out of me saying this — given that I am a very, well, picky eater.))
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Quote of the Day: Mike Lee
“So busy bitching about iPhone location logs I forgot to check in on Foursquare.”— Mike Lee -
Quote of the Day: @WillFerrell
“Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, you write on walls and you get poked by people you don’t know.”— @WillFerrell (a parody account)