Category: Quotes

“Borrowing from “the best camera is the one you have with you”, we wanted to make sure that the best device for reading Rands in Repose was the one you had with you.”

— Alex King

“For now, though, it seems rather pointless for the LGs, Sonys, Facebooks and Amazons of this world to keep swallowing down data when they regurgitate recommendations that have barely more accuracy than a horoscope.”

— Craig Grannell

“Do you honestly think Apple ran its enterprise on Xserves?”

— Thomas Brand

“Apple’s hardware design is now so far ahead of its competition that they’re just making fun of them at this point.”

— Andrew Kim

“What it comes down to is that Google has made an appliance. A boring, no-thrills appliance. This is not a work of art. But it doesn’t pretend to be a work of art. “

— David Heinemeier Hansson

“It’s odd that an article “rediscovering” the concept of planned obsolescence would be about Apple, as its phones have a far longer shelf life and a far higher resale value than any of its competitors’ phones. The fact that it’s about Apple says more about the Times’s business model than it does about Apple’s.”

— The Macalope

“Anyone who’s been within a thousand miles of one can tell you… There is no tantrum like a Put-Down-the-iPad Tantrum.”

— Dave Pell

“Everything you need to operate a Mac or iOS device is free. Spreadsheet, photo, music, presentation, word processing, and movie-making software, all free.”

— Jim Dalrymple

“If anything, Google’s motto seems to have largely succeeded at reframing “evil” to exclude all actions performed by Google.”

— Ian Bogost

“The triumph of opinion-driven cable TV and the collapse of newspapers has created an American news media that does an increasingly poor job of informing the public. And an excellent job of dividing it.”

— David Rohde

“I would close down the news bureaus of the networks and let’s start all over, tabula rasa. The majors, NBCs, ABCs, they won’t like this – just do something different, do something that gets people mad at you, that’s what we’re supposed to be doing”

— Seymour Hersh

“Technology is for us. All of us. People who carry things.”

— Tim Carmody

“Once I tweet something, I stop thinking about it; it’s like an emotional release of idea liability.”

— Dustin Curtis

“Like the best camera being the one you have with you, the best security is the one you’ll actually use.”

— John Moltz