Quote of the Day

"I want to put a ding in the universe"

Tales — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

I want to put a ding in the universe.

- Steve Jobs

Less is More

Tales — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.

- Steve Wozniak

'He lets me be an employee'

Tales — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

"You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life."

- Steve Wozniak

"They will want something new."

Tales — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

“You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.”

- Steve Jobs

"Creative things have to sell..."

Tales — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

"Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such. Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world."

- Steve Wozniak

If IBM wins

Tales — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

"If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years."

- Steve Jobs

"Sometimes when you inovate..."

Tales — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."

- Steve Jobs

Things should work the way they should

Tales — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

"It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time."

- Steve Wozniak

Playing with other people

Tales — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

"A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things."

- Steve Wozniak

Shapes of Characters and Things

Tales — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

"I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things."

- Steve Wozniak

Nano Scratches

Tales — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

“We have received very few calls from customers reporting this problem - we do not think this is a widespread issue. If customers are concerned about scratching we suggest they use one of the many iPod Nano cases to protect their iPod.”

- Phil Schiller

The Moving Force

Cheetah — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

"The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay."

- Steve Jobs

Apple's market share

Cheetah — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

"Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?"

- Steve Jobs

"I was born to teach"

Cheetah — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

"I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children."

- Steve Wozniak

Math problems

Cheetah — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

"Hardware and software is like math problems. It works or it doesn't, and you can change it to work."

- Steve Wozniak

Emotional Experience

Tales — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

“We think about making it so easy that a second-grader can use it, mom and dad at home can use it. The fun is in making your own movie, putting together your own content. It's such an emotional experience to see your kids and yourself and your friends in your own movie.”

- Phil Schiller

Telling a story

Tales — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

“And I think we all have a story inside we want to tell and here's a chance to finally be able to do it.”

- Phil Schiller

It's the box it comes in

Cheetah — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

"I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in."

- Donald Norman

Brainwashed

Cheetah — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

"My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod."

- Steve Ballmer

"Don't worry, be crappy."

Cheetah — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

"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

Accelerate a Mac

Cheetah — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

"The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec."

- Marcus Dolengo

End of the Century

Cheetah — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

'I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end."'

- Douglas Adams

Independent

Cheetah — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

"Macintosh users tend to be a very independent type, and they tend to be very loyal to their product. They've been threatened with [Apple] going out of business and being put out of their schools and out of their companies, and they've got to fight. There's so much passion for it."

- Steve Wozniak

Build what they want

Cheetah — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

"You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new."

- Steve Jobs

Dot-com Bubble

Cheetah — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

"We’ve had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren’t going to lay off people, that we’d taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place - the last thing we were going to do is lay them off."

- Steve Jobs

TV and Typewriter

Cheetah — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:00:00 +0000

"I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen."

- Steve Wozniak