Macs Quotes

• Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Years, Two

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.58, Prabhat Prakashan

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• We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Best Job, People

  "Steve Jobs Lays It Down For Playboy". Playboy interview, gizmodo.com. July 15, 2011.

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• I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous.

  Steve Jobs

  Apples, Church, Loyal

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.20, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I've had quite a few people actually say that they're going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me... the character. I think that's pretty cool!

  Catherine Bell

  Girl, Teenager, Character

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

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• When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do.

  Stevie Nicks

  Relationship, Sacrifice, Sacrificing Everything

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• I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.

  Joanna Newsom

  School, Years, Obsession

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love my little Mac G4 computer and we just had Internet installed on the bus... we all have little Macs actually, there's four of us on the bus, and we all just sit there and surf the Internet!

  Lee Ann Womack

  Surfing, Four, Littles

  "Lee Ann Womack Hits Road With Toby Keith". www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2005.

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• I'm rather old-fashioned about this video business. It's all relatively new. We really don't do videos, Fleetwood Mac. We've only done two.

  Christine McVie

  Games, Two, Video

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• Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.

  Jimmy Connors

  Smile, Sunday, Nuts

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• I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms.

  Steve Wozniak

  School, Play, Racist

  "Mac vs Windows?". Answer to the question from E-mail, www.woz.org.

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• Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.

  Ann Wilson

  Rocks, Band, Fleetwood Mac

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• Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Taken, Thinking, Apples

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• I think it's great that she's not perfect and wasn't perfect. I think that's maybe why so many young girls and different people look up to Mac and respect her even more.

  Catherine Bell

  Girl, Respect, Thinking

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

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• I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

  Seymour Cray

  Science, Technology, Design

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• A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.

  John Ralston Saul

  Culture, Bigs, Communion

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, even to this day, if I smell a Big Mac, I'm like Pavlov's dog. My mouth starts watering immediately, like, 'Man, that is so good,' but I can't take a bite of it.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Dog, Good Day, Men

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 4, 2004.

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• I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 - 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance.

  Tony Visconti

  Order, Years, Track

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• Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Dropping Acid, Best Job

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• I eat stickers all the time dude!

  Charlie Day

  Philadelphia, Always Sunny, Sunny Day

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• I told [Bill Gates] I believed every word of what I said but that I should never have said it in public. I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Thinking, Best Job

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• I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.

  Kid Rock

  Money, Budweiser, Want

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• When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Painting, Fleetwood Mac, Process

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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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• 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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• But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Team, Writing, Size

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