Apps Quotes

• So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.

  Thomas Dolby

  Technology, Long, Killers

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• Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Running, Use, Linux

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• The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

  Jeff Bezos

  Home, Thinking, Light

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• There's a new Facebook app that will post a final status update for you after you die. That's ridiculous. I don't need someone to change my status when I die. I need them to water my Farmville crops.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Water, Updates, Finals

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• Apple is developing a service called Home Kit that will allow people to operate gadgets like garage openers and thermostats through one app. In related news, please don't tell my parents about this. I can't be explaining this stuff every week.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Home, Apples, People

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• It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it.

  Steve Wozniak

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Don't just buy a new video game, make one.
  Don't just download the latest app, help design it.
  Don't just play on your phone, program it.

  Barack Obama

  Phones, Games, Play

  "Computers Are The Future, But Does Everyone Need To Code?". "All Tech Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, www.npr.org. January 25, 2014.

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• The Shakespeare Pro App is simply terrific and filled with loads of wonderful information!

  Ken Ludwig

  Information, Wonderful, Filled

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• I am prescribing a lot more apps than medications these days.

  Eric Topol

  Medication, These Days, Prescribing

  Twitter post from Oct 18, 2012

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• I use an app called ChoreMonster. The kids earn points for brushing teeth or picking up the dog poop. It's genius.

  Julie Bowen

  Dog, Kids, Poop

  "Julie Bowen: Fellow Mom Reese Witherspoon 'Saved My Life'". Interview with Alissa Schulman, www.usmagazine.com. August 9, 2016.

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• Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for every conceivable recording need. The thing is, all that time you spend logging and then curating the quotidian aspects of your daily life is time taken away from actually doing things.

  Graydon Carter

  Notebook, Memories, Taken

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

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• The younger generation is surrounded by the Internet, apps, and video games. But somehow, my books make them read.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Book, Young Generation, Games

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• Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.

  Melinda Gates

  Smartphones, Helping, Kind

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• I think parents need to make sure they have parental controls and not have their credit card linked up to in-app purchases so their kids can just spend whenever they want to. They need to ask permission.

  Kim Kardashian

  Kids, Thinking, Parent

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• All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.

  Mario Batali

  Wedding, Reading, Book

  "An Introduction and Rallying Cry" by Mario Batali, www.esquire.com. August 24, 2011.

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• I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  People, World, Today

  "The Zuckerberg Files: everything the Facebook CEO has said publicly" by Anna Lauren Hoffmann, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2016.

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• Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!

  Diablo Cody

  Cute, Character, Worry

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• Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.

  Penn Jillette

  Beautiful, Iphone, Design

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

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• We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac.

  Steve Jobs

  Iphone, Phones, Use

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• Accept that the moment you buy your latest iPad, iPhone, tablet, app or game it will be promptly followed by a vastly improved and sleeker looking version.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Iphone, Games, Ipads

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• But I've become completely obsessed with taking photos on my iPhone. I have like 400 apps.

  Debra Messing

  Iphone, Obsessed

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• I've tried a lot of different apps to manage Twitter on my phone (I use Hootsuite on my laptop), but I think the official Twitter app is really good.

  Susan Orlean

  Thinking, Phones, Different

  "iPhone Home: Susan Orlean". www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2012.

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• The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.

  Susan Orlean

  Home, Perfect, Quests

  "iPhone Home: Susan Orlean". www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2012.

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• If you think about YouTube, YouTube is a 'searching the world's videos' problem, right? They all have to be there, but how do you find them? What I guess I'm trying to say is that search is still the killer app.

  Eric Schmidt

  Thinking, Trying, Video

  "Text of Wired's Interview with Google CEO Eric Shcmidt". Interview with Fred Vogelstein, www.wired.com. April 9, 2009.

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• I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

  Taylor Swift

  Memes, My Friends

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