Apples Quotes - Page 33

• I don't mind girls or boys. My mother gets upset when I say I want all girls because Apple is so fabulous.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Girl, Mother, Boys

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• He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.

  George Herbert

  Eating

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.5

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• The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.

  Heinrich Heine

  Violet, Firsts, Grass

  Heinrich Heine (1859). “The Poems of Heine, complete: Translated in the original Metres: With a Sketch of Heine's Life. By Edgar Alfred Bowring”, p.169

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• Out of the fragrant heart of bloom, The bobolinks are singing; Out of the fragrant heart of bloom The apple-tree whispers to the room, "Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?

  William Dean Howells

  Art, Tree, Singing

  William Dean Howells (2017). “Poems”, p.89, The Floating Press

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• Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.

  Robert Graves

  Eye, Noses, Honest

  Robert Graves (1959). “Collected Poems, 1959”, London : Cassell

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• You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

  Ken Kesey

  Seeds

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• Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?

  Isaac Newton

  Thinking, Anvils, Wonder

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• No other technology company other than Apple has successfully transitioned their platform. It's almost never done, and it's way harder than you realise. This transition is where tech companies go to die.

  Jim Balsillie

  Technology, Transition, Done

  "RIM chiefs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie's best quotes" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable.

  Charles Mingus

  Teacher, School, Son

  Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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• Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.

  Jennifer Damiano

  Girl, Song, Writing

  "DIVA TALK: Catching Up With Venice Star Jennifer Damiano". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. May 31, 2013.

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• 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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• In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.

  Thomas Mars

  Song, Association, France

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits. When you look at the companies that have really won customers over in technology - say, Apple and Google - you find that they spend billions of dollars on R&D each year, often spending that much on a product before they ever make a dime back in profits.

  Ramez Naam

  Technology, Years, Google

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I don't own encryption, Apple doesn't own encryption. Encryption, as you know, is everywhere. In fact some of encryption is funded by our government.

  Tim Cook

  Government, Encryption, Facts

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

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• If you're worried about messaging, people will just move to something else. You know if you legislate against Facebook and Apple and Google and whatever else in the US, they'll just use something else. So are we really safer then? I would say no. I would say we're less safe, because now we've opened up all of the infrastructure for people to go wacko at.

  Tim Cook

  Moving, People, Google

  Source: time.com

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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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