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 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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• For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more.

  Steve Albini

  Air, Coke, Bread

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• Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.

  Bernie Mac

  Wind, Car, Want

  "Fictional character: Bernie 'Mac' McCullough". TV Series "The Bernie Mac Show", www.imdb.com. 2001-2006.

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• We've been in the Mac software business for more than 20 years. And it's been a great business for us.

  Scott Erickson

  Years, Great Business, Software

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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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• 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

  Money, Business, Creativity

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• I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

  Stephen King

  Funny, Writing, Literature

  Stephen King (1989). “The Stephen King companion”

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• I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it.

  Jerry Goldsmith

  Years, Comfortable

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• Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

  Jack Lynch

  Communication, Style, Pepsi

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• My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers.

  Stevie Nicks

  Brother, Family Love, Emotional

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• MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

  Eddie Izzard

  Police, Ironic, Tests

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• First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

  Douglas Horton

  Time, Desire, Three

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• I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Apples, April, Introduction

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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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• 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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• 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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• The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Team, Apples, People

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• Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Time, Money

  "Fortune" Magazine, November 9, 1998.

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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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• Steve Jobs doesn't use a Mac, and won't, because it's too crappy in his opinion.

  Steve Wozniak

  Jobs, Use, Opinion

  Interview with Dave Mark, www.mactech.com. May 1998.

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• Mac OS X Tiger will come out long before Longhorn.

  Steve Jobs

  Long, Tigers

  "Mac's Tiger 'Long Before Longhorn'" by Michael Singer, www.datamation.com. January 11, 2005.

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• These two entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.

  Barney Frank

  Two, People, Affordable Housing

  The New York Times, September 11, 2003.

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• These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis.

  Barney Frank

  Two, Financial, Kind

  The New York Times, September 11, 2003.

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