Category: Quotes

“In 30 years time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed.”

— Richard Branson

“If openness were key, Linux should have succeeded everywhere. It has not.”

— John Gruber

“Strapping a computer display to your face is not the answer.”

— John Gruber

“It’s easy and fun to mock Google Glass (if only it were profitable, too), but I can’t very well mock it out of one side of my mouth while talking up an ‘iWatch’ out of the other side.”

— John Moltz

“But for Pocket to repeatedly state the opposite — that they were the first service like this, and that Instapaper followed their lead — is over the line, and I won’t sit here quietly and let that go unchallenged.”

— Marco Arment

“The laptop of yesterday is the iPad of today.”

— Shawn Blanc

“Meanwhile, Instagram became the billion-dollar photo-sharing service and Facebook became, well, a company that could afford to buy a billion-dollar photo-sharing service.”

— Mat Honan

“If you love it, and you’re good at it, it’s what you were meant to be doing.”

— Noah Stokes

“A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?”

— @barmstrong

“‘Source Links’ at the bottom of articles are a way for a site to steal your content, but make themselves feel better about doing it.”

— Jim Dalrymple

“How many times have I heard users complain about fonts being too small? More times than I’ve heard them complain about fonts being too large – wait, I’ve never heard a user complain about that.”

— Brent Jackson

“Tweaking isn’t creating. Tweaking is procrastinating. It’s a denial of responsibility to produce and it’s a common problem among the “productivity porn” watchers (of which I used to be one).”

— Harry Marks

“Why is this? As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid?”

— Bill Gates

“I wouldn’t download a BBC app or an NPR app for my computer. Why would I want one on my phone?”

— Tom Morris

“But be aware of the fallacy of failure. It is celebrated only when you succeed. If you continue to fail, you’re going to be— A Failure.”

— Bruce Nussbaum

“Community is built by people passing each other in the streets, by NEIGHBORhoods, not ‘stranger’hoods.”

— Andrea

“I’m calling bullshit on every one of these silly pieces about imaginary chinks in the armor.”

— Patrick Rhone

“Don’t ignore your dreams; don’t work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy.”

— Paul Graham

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.