#mac

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now? ↗

— Steve Jobs

#another #bulb #computer #crude #day

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

#applications #basically #both #business #completely

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

#asked #because #belong #church #customers

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#although #chew #commitment #design #get

I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display. ↗

— Bill Joy

#everyone #i #i think #macintosh #proves

Truly what the Emmys are about are the machine behind them, and Oscars are the same way, where if you have a big enough machine behind you, you get nominated, because truly how many of the best performances actually win...not many. ↗

— Christopher Judge

#actually #because #behind #best #big

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard? ↗

— Robert J. Sawyer

#big-bang #darwinism #double-standards #id #intelligent-design

We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured. ↗

— Marcy Kaptur

#assured #been #counted #denied #elections

And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy. ↗

— John Kasich

#face #frankly #happens #obamacare #out

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems. ↗

— Leon Kass

#amount #companies #direct #enormous #instantaneous