Apples Quotes - Page 26

• If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Would Be, Next

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• I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o'clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that's why we're called Apple.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Creativity, Garbage Cans

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• Remember when we used to worry about some weirdo having a razor blade inside an apple on Halloween? Not anymore. Like a kid today would eat an apple.

  Jay Leno

  Halloween, Kids, Worry

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• My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple.

  Steve Jobs

  Two, Next, Opinion

  Fortune Magazine, August 26, 1991.

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• It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated.

  Steve Jobs

  Clever, Years, Ducks

  "Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company". Book by Owen W. Linzmayer, 2004.

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• digital hub (center of our universe) is moving from PC to cloud - PC now just another client alongside iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, ... - Apple is in danger of hanging on to old paradigm too long (innovator's dilemma) - Google and Microsoft are further along on the technology, but haven't quite figured it out yet - tie all of our products together, so we further lock customers into our ecosystem

  Steve Jobs

  Moving, Technology, Clouds

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• The best of all physiciansIs apple pie and cheese!

  Eugene Field

  Pie, Apple Pie, Cheese

  Eugene Field, “Apple-Pie And Cheese”

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• [Apple and RIM] are probably restricted, in some sense, to a certain maximum. ... If you want to reach more people than that, you sort-of have to separate the hardware and the software issue.

  Steve Ballmer

  Issues, People, Want

  "Worth Watching: Steve Ballmer in the heart of Silicon Valley", ZDNet, September 26, 2008.

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• All the consumer market mojo is with Apple and to a lesser extent BlackBerry. And yet, the real market momentum with operators and the real market momentum with device manufacturers seems to primarily be with Windows Mobile and Android.

  Steve Ballmer

  Real, Momentum, Mojo

  "Ballmer Sees Mac as a Main Competitor, iPhone as Just Buzz". AppleInsider, appleinsider.com. February 24, 2009.

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• You can have an Apple in the phone business, or a RIM, and they can do very well, but when 1.3 billion phones a year are all smart, the software that's gonna be most popular in those phones is gonna be software that's sold by somebody who doesn't make their own phones.

  Steve Ballmer

  Smart, Phones, Years

  "Exclusive Interview With Steve Ballmer: Products, Competition, The Road Ahead". Interview with Michael Arrington, techcrunch.com. September 24, 2009.

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• When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.

  Edward Abbey

  Mean, Writing, Disease And Death

  "Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey ("Down the River", p. 147), 1968.

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• It has long been my desire to be a little worm in the fair apple of Progress.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Long, Progress, Desire

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• You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small," I told myself. I had to keep saying it over and over to myself. "Be little. Don't try to be big. Work under the guns. Be a little worm in the fair apple of life.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Gun, Trying, Littles

  Sherwood Anderson (1969). “Sherwood Anderson's memoirs: a critical edition”

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• The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage huddled on telegraph wires in back gardens or fowl roosting in apple trees, the eternal sorrow that never sleeps of great Mexico.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Dog, Sleep, Night

  Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• Without investments in research and science that will create the next Apple, create the next new innovation that will sell products around the world, we will lose. If we're not training engineers to make sure that they are equipped here in this country, then companies won't come here. Those investments are what's going to help to make sure that we continue to lead this world economy not just next year, but 10 years from now, 50 years from now, a hundred years from now.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Years, Innovation

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• If you look at any institution in history - look at the Roman Empire - anything in history, and what it looks like when it's peaking. Look at Apple, and how can you say it's not peaking? ... The thing is, it may take another year or two before it starts to decline, but it has to - everything does.

  Trip Hawkins

  Years, Two, Doe

  "Trip Hawkins On Apple". "Edge Online", August 2, 2011.

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• The worst day is just that I did not enter the culinary world sooner. And the best day was seeing the reaction of my one year old daughter when she tasted her first crisp apple!

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Daughter, Years, World

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• Al the povere peple tho pescoddes fetten; Benes and baken apples thei broghte in hir lappe, Chibolles and chervelles and ripe chiries manye, And profrede Piers this present to plese with Hunger.

  William Langland

  Piers, Als, Hunger

  c.1378 A description of the sin of Envy. Piers Plowman (B text), 'Passus 6,' l.291-4. (pescoddes = pea-pod, fetten = fetched, chibolles = springonions, chervelles = chervil, plese withHunger = please hunger with)

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• When I'm painting them, the whole legend and mythology of apples occurs to me, and so Adam and Eve and the snake and all the rest of it somehow gets into the picture.

  Mary Pratt

  Snakes, Legends, Painting

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• Apple has struck a cultural nerve, especially with Generation X and Gen Y, while Windows and PC are viewed in essence as 'My parents' computer'.

  Tim Bajarin

  Essence, Parent, Generations

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• The tablet market has only succeeded as a niche market over the years and it was hoped Apple would dream up some new paradigm to change all that. From what I've seen and heard, this won't be it.

  John C. Dvorak

  Dream, Years, Tablets

  "Hello, giant iPod Touch". www.marketwatch.com. January 29, 2010.

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• Within the decade, Microsoft should have a minimum of 300 stores. They should do as well as the Apple Stores... [Microsoft] is going to experiment with holiday pop-up shops this year in various cities. I predict they will be hugely successful.

  John C. Dvorak

  Holiday, Successful, Cities

  "Microsoft Retail Stores Will Rival Apple Stores". www.pcmag.com. October 3, 2012.

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• As for my prediction that this phone would be a bad idea for Apple to pursue, anything can still happen. Time is a cruel mistress.

  John C. Dvorak

  Iphone, Ideas, Mistress

  "Wrong? Dvorak blames his 'getting screwed over' by Apple" by Paul McNamara, www.networkworld.com. June 27, 2012.

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• The Apple iPad is not going to be the company's next runaway best seller. Not if the industry can help it... With the iPad, Apple may have irked it's somewhat new partner Intel Corp. Intel gets spanked by nobody.

  John C. Dvorak

  Ipads, May, Next

  "The iPad faces industry backlash". www.marketwatch.com. February 12, 2010.

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• Nobody can deny that Apple is fashionable, and most iPhone users buy the newest so they can be fashionable. To do this right, Apple needs a new phone every quarter.

  John C. Dvorak

  Iphone, Phones, Needs

  "Giddyup, Apple!". www.pcmag.com. June 29, 2012.

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