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Quotes About Apple

I do not believe that people should steal music, but I think that fans need a better alternative, hence why I am such a fan of Apple, where you can simply buy a song for $0.99; it is very easy, it is a value-packed service... and this is a result of the shakeup... something has to happen in the music industry.
~ Seal
Stealing something from Apple is the most innovative way to be seen as an innovative, digital-first company.
~ Sarah Cooper
Apple was very important in terms of disrupting the music business and remaking the television business. They made it harder for people to make money on the things that they produce. In news, they've created Apple News, and they've tried to steer people towards information.
~ Franklin Foer
As Apple advances the medical promise of its watch and smartphones, it has also made clear that its foremost aim is to steer clear of Food and Drug Administration regulation.
~ Scott Gottlieb
Apple is a failure because they missed social? Nobody would say that, because they are having great success.
~ Steve Ballmer
I always try to make healthy baked goods, like an oatmeal cookie that literally has only oats, nuts, bananas and apple sauce in it.
~ Toni Garrn
I've been thinking about 'The Jetsons' since I was a kid. But occasionally, you want 'The Jetsons' to come to reality. That's what Apple is so great at: Productizing things and bringing them to you so you can be a part of it.
~ Tim Cook
Brenda was six when she fell out of the apple tree.
~ Norman Mailer
We still say 'the apple of the eye' when we wish to describe something superlatively precious.
~ O. Henry
Ein Apfel?' Louis wick zurück. 'Ich rühr keine Äpfel an. Zwei meiner Tanten sind so vergiftet werden.
~ Cornelia Funke
But, mind you, it's like this; while you live your life, you are in some way an organic whole with all life. But once you start the mental life you pluck the apple. You've severed the connection between the apple and the tree: the organic connection. And if you've got nothing in your life but the mental life, then you yourself are a plucked apple...you've fallen off the tree.
~ D.H. Lawrence
My own conviction is that semiotics provides an escape from the solipsist prison by its stress on the social origins of language--you have to point to an apple and name it for me before I know there is such a thing--and the existence of a world of apples outside ourselves.
~ Walker Percy
Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.
~ Walter Isaacson
When you open the box of an iPhone or iPad, we want that tactile experience to set the tone for how you perceive the product.
~ Walter Isaacson
I was on one of my fruitarian diets Steve Jobs recalled I had just comeback from the apple farm. It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge of the word 'computer', plus it would get us a head of Atari in the phone book. He told Wozniak if a better name did not hit them by the next afternoon, they would just stick with apple and they did.  1 Apr 1976 
~ Walter Isaacson
In other words, the idea for the iPad actually came before, and helped to shape, the birth of the iPhone. 
~ Walter Isaacson
Google, you fucking ripped off the iPhone, wholesale ripped us off. Grand theft. I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this. They are scared to death, because they know they are guilty. Outside of Search, Google's products—Android, Google Docs—are shit.
~ Walter Isaacson
Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future. If anybody was ever wondering why Apple is on the earth, I would hold up this as a good example
~ Walter Isaacson
The reason Apple can create products like the iPad is that we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts
~ Walter Isaacson
At one point I emailed to ask if it was true, as my daughter had told me, that the Apple logo was an homage to Alan Turing, the British computer pioneer who broke the German wartime codes and then committed suicide by biting into a cyanide-laced apple. He replied that he wished he had thought of that, but hadn't.
~ Walter Isaacson
Most outside experts disagreed. "Maybe it's time Steve Jobs stopped thinking quite so differently," Business Week wrote in a story headlined "Sorry Steve, Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work.
~ Walter Isaacson
Ever since Apple's first brochure proclaimed Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, Jobs had aimed for the simplicity that comes from conquering complexities, not ignoring them. It takes a lot of hard word, he said, to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions.
~ Walter Isaacson
What's the difference between Apple and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
~ Walter Isaacson
As a result, the process of designing a product at Apple was integrally related to how it would be engineered and manufactured. Ive described one of Apple's Power Macs. "We wanted to get rid of anything other than what was absolutely essential," he said. "To do so required total collaboration between the designers, the product developers, the engineers, and the manufacturing
~ Walter Isaacson