Mobile Quotes - Page 3

• This is a critical time for the industry and for Microsoft. Make no mistake, we are headed for greater places — as technology evolves and we evolve with and ahead of it. Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world.

  Satya Nadella

  Jobs, Mistake, Technology

  "'Our industry does not respect tradition': CEO Satya Nadella's email to Microsoft employees" by Brad Chacos, www.pcworld.com. February 4, 2014.

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• I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'

  Hunter Hayes

  Couple, Years, Parent

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• There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Men, Years

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• I read about a guy in Michigan this winter who was cruising along on his snow mobile. "Whoo hoo!" Didn't see a barbed wire fence. FOOM - cut his head right off. And I'll be honest with you, my first thought was... That's how I want to go. Having the time of your life, "whoo hoo!" FOOM. I want the last thought in my head to be, 'Hey, check out that headless snow mobile driver. He's got a jacket just like mine.'

  David Crowe

  Winter, Cutting, Snow

  "Bob & Tom Comedy All-Stars Tour". Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Have I got a black book? Yes, it's called a mobile phone. I do get offers. There is no shortage of people if you want to go on dates - working in TV, living in L.A., it is there if you want it.

  Simon Cowell

  Book, Phones, People

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• I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.

  Vinton Cerf

  Wells, Devices, Appliances

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• We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.

  Richard Branson

  Believe, Phones, Years

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• So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.

  Tony Blair

  Phones, Prime, Ministers

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• So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.

  Will Self

  Phones, Hands, Cards

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• Android dominates the mobile malware market.

  Tim Cook

  Androids

  "Apple CEO: Android is beating us in the market… for mobile malware" by Graham Cluley, www.intego.com. June 3, 2014.

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• You know what we call pedestrians in Morganville? Mobile bloodbanks.

  Rachel Caine

  Pedestrians, Knows, Eve Rosser

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.788, Penguin

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• What are you doing with all those books anyway?" Ron asked. Just trying to decide which ones to take with us," said Hermione. When we're looking for the Horcruxes." Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Hunting, Hands

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• Theophilus Crowe's mobile phone played eight bars of "Tangled Up in Blue" in an irritating electronic voice that sounded like a choir of suffering houseflies, or Jiminy Cricket huffing helium, or, well, you know, Bob Dylan.

  Christopher Moore

  Eight, Phones, Blue

  Christopher Moore (2009). “The Stupidest Angel”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• The only purpose of cats is that they constitute mobile decorative objects.

  Muriel Barbery

  Cat, Purpose, Objects

  Muriel Barbery (2013). “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”, p.37, Gallic Books

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• I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

  Harper Lee

  Father, Reading, Eyebrows

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Fall, Reality, Speed

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• Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservations. Your people will wear cardigans, and drink highballs. We will sell our bracelets by the road sides, and you will play golf, and eat hot h'ors d'ourves. My people will have pain and degradation. Your people will have stick shifts. The gods of my tribe have spoken. They said do not trust the pilgrims, especially Sarah Miller. And for all of these reasons I have decided to scalp you and burn your village to the ground.

  Paul Rudnick

  Thanksgiving, Pain, Taken

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• Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?

  Marina Abramovic

  Technology, Phones, Use

  Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. April 8, 2011.

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• Mobile phones are one of the most insecure devices that were ever available, so they're very easy to trace; they're very easy to tap.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Insecure, Phones, Easy

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• On engagement, we're already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They're more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Six, Seven Days, Use

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

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• Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Phones, Tvs, Desktop

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

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• My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second, at Flatiron, was Internet to bubble. And the third, at USV, has been web 2 to mobile. I have always used a new firm to denote a new investment phase for me. Throw away the old. Start with the new.

  Fred Wilson

  Years, Careers, Long

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• If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That's why Twitter is performing so well on mobile.

  Fred Wilson

  Way, Scales, Performing

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• My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.

  Rachel Weisz

  Children, Real, Hippie

  "Toast of the tomb". www.theguardian.com. June 13, 1999.

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• Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

  Susan Sontag

  Past, Flux, Existence

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