Apples Quotes - Page 39

• Words can make you sick. Or healed. - Words create worlds because the universe is always listening... and so are your cells, your psyche, and your children, your team, and the apples

  Danielle LaPorte

  Children, Team, Cells

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• The wise man knoweth where to stop, as he runneth in the race of fortune, For experience of old hath taught him, that happiness lingered midway; And many in hot pursuit have hasted to the goal of wealth, But have lost, as they ran, those apples of gold--the mind and the power to enjoy it.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Wise, Men, Race

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1850). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments. 1st and 2d Series in One Volume”, p.124

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• Oh heavy change. The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Change, Skins, World

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962”, p.418, Stanford University Press

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• At the Apple store, the people waiting in line for the iPhone 6 were trampled by the people waiting for the iPhone 7.

  David Letterman

  Iphone, Waiting In Line, People

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• John Sculley ruined Apple and he ruined it by bringing a set of values to the top of Apple which were corrupt and corrupted some of the top people who were there, drove out some of the ones who were not corruptible, and brought in more corrupt ones and paid themselves collectively tens of millions of dollars and cared more about their own glory and wealth than they did about what built Apple in the first place which was making great computers for people to use.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Firsts, Dollars

  Excerpts from an Oral History Interview with Daniel Morrow: "The Growth of Apple Computer", americanhistory.si.edu. April 20, 1995.

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• A man picks a wife about the same way an apple picks a farmer.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Wife, Way

  Evan Esar (1978). “The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and Stories”, Doubleday Books

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• As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Educated, Humans

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.81

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• With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.

  Felix Dennis

  People, Magazines, Computer

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• Apple is apparently building a large solar energy farm in North Carolina. And if there's any justice, the minute they're done building it, God will introduce a newer, smaller sun that's not compatible with their machinery.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Funny, Justice, Energy

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• I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod.

  Steve Jobs

  Artist, Technology, Ipods

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Stealing things is everybody's problem. We [Apple Inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it. So people are stealing stuff and we're optimists. We believe that 80 percent of the people stealing stuff don't want to be; there's just no legal alternative.

  Steve Jobs

  Believe, Stealing Things, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We're not a media company. We don't own media. We don't own music. We don't own films or television. We're not a media company. We're just Apple.

  Steve Jobs

  Media, Television, Film

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• First draw dog, then fleas. First paint apple, then worm holes.

  Sergei Bongart

  Dog, Fleas, Firsts

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• The ability of human beings to be creative depends fundamentally on the health and well-being of our biosphere, the few kilometres of air, water, and soil that surround our planet like the skin of an apple. Quite simply, they are the physical and spiritual bases of our lives, and the only source of materials and tools.

  Freeman Patterson

  Spiritual, Air, Water

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• We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

  Anthony Marais

  Needs, Hunger, Born

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• Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.

  Srikumar Rao

  Positive Thinking, Motherhood, Pie

  "Why Positive Thinking Is Bad for You" by Srikumar S. Rao, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Office, Tree, Cheerful

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

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• And for an apple damn'd mankind.

  Thomas Otway

  Damn, Mankind

  1680 TheOrphan, act 3.

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• We have to make sure, at Apple, that we stay true to focus, laser focus - we know we can only do great things a few times, only on a few products.

  Tim Cook

  Focus, Lasers, Stay True

  "Transcript: Apple CEO Tim Cook interviewed by NBC's Brian Williams". articles.latimes.com. December 06, 2012.

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• Our whole goal in life is to give you something you didn’t know you wanted and then once you get it, you can’t imagine your life without it… and you can count on apple doing that.

  Tim Cook

  Giving, Goal, Life Is

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• We're very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world's best products and enriching people's lives.

  Tim Cook

  Simple, People, Focus

  "Transcript: Apple CEO Tim Cook interviewed by NBC's Brian Williams". articles.latimes.com. December 06, 2012.

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• Apple has a culture of excellence that is, I think, so unique and so special. I'm not going to witness or permit the change of it.

  Tim Cook

  Unique, Thinking, Excellence

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• Apple Stores Offer the Best Buying Experience and Customer Service On The Planet

  Tim Cook

  Buying, Stores, Planets

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• It's the privilege of a lifetime for me to work with the most innovative people on Earth.

  Tim Cook

  Beautiful, People, Innovation

  "Apple Event Meta Liveblog: All The News As It Happens" by Alex Kidman, www.gizmodo.com.au. March 8, 2012.

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• By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Running, Fall, Machines

  "May the Source Be With You" by Lawrence Lessig, www.wired.com. December 1, 2001.

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