Macs Quotes - Page 2

• A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them.

  Robert Wise

  Apples, Decision, Way

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• We've been in the Mac software business for more than 20 years. And it's been a great business for us.

  Scott Erickson

  Years, Great Business, Software

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• Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.

  Bernie Mac

  Wind, Car, Want

  "Fictional character: Bernie 'Mac' McCullough". TV Series "The Bernie Mac Show", www.imdb.com. 2001-2006.

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• First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

  Douglas Horton

  Time, Desire, Three

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• For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more.

  Steve Albini

  Air, Coke, Bread

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• I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

  Stephen King

  Funny, Writing, Literature

  Stephen King (1989). “The Stephen King companion”

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• Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

  Tom Clancy

  Memorable, Guy, Computer

  "Escape The Pace: 100 Fun And Easy Ways To Slow Down And Enjoy Your Life". Book by Lisa Rickwood, 2002.

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• Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

  Jack Lynch

  Communication, Style, Pepsi

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• MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

  Eddie Izzard

  Police, Ironic, Tests

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• I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Apples, April, Introduction

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• My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers.

  Stevie Nicks

  Brother, Family Love, Emotional

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• Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Money, Business, Creativity

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• Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Time, Money

  "Fortune" Magazine, November 9, 1998.

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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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• These two entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.

  Barney Frank

  Two, People, Affordable Housing

  The New York Times, September 11, 2003.

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• Mac OS X Tiger will come out long before Longhorn.

  Steve Jobs

  Long, Tigers

  "Mac's Tiger 'Long Before Longhorn'" by Michael Singer, www.datamation.com. January 11, 2005.

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• Steve Jobs doesn't use a Mac, and won't, because it's too crappy in his opinion.

  Steve Wozniak

  Jobs, Use, Opinion

  Interview with Dave Mark, www.mactech.com. May 1998.

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• These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis.

  Barney Frank

  Two, Financial, Kind

  The New York Times, September 11, 2003.

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• Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you are, Harry. You're going to find out which principles you'll stand by to your death--and which lines you'll cross." He took my empty glass away and said, "You're heading into the badlands. It'll be easy to get lost.

  Jim Butcher

  Glasses, Principles, Lines

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.12, Penguin

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• Toward the end of the film ['Life, Animated'] we see 'The Sidekicks Story,' and that is a story that Owen drew himself. We took that style, which is decidedly different from Disney animation, and used it as a basis. It's a 'two-dimensional' hand drawn animated form, so I went to this company in Paris called 'Mac Guff,' and they assembled an amazing group of young animators, and brought it to life.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Hands, Disney Animation, Two

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I've always needed to bulk up, so until the modeling took off I was ramming Big Macs down my throat and doing plenty of bodyweight work. I'm over the Big Macs now, but I'll still drop down and do my press ups whenever I find the time.

  Jamie Dornan

  Down And, Bigs, Throat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you're in a band and you're a girl, you know, guys just don't ... it's not the same kind of a groove as a girl walking up wearing a mac with nothing on underneath, or knocking on someone's door at three in the morning.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Girl, Morning, Doors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Mac people use their computers; Windows people put up with their computers

  Wil Shipley

  People, Use, Computer

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• Mac OS is just as vulnerable as Microsoft Windows

  Lance Ulanoff

  Microsoft, Window, Vulnerable

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• Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We've always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that's our story.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Stories, Done, Truthful

  "Bartender Wisdom: Mick Fleetwood Edition" by Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2011.

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