Apple’s way of getting you to buy a new phone is to make you really happy with your current one, whereas apparently Android phone makers think they can get you to buy a new phone by making you really unhappy with your current one

– The Understatement, visualizing Android Orphans

Only dullards crippled into cretinism by a fear of being thought pretentious could be so dumb as to believe that there is a distinction between design and use, between form and function, between style and substance.

– Stephen Fry, on Steve Jobs

the day Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple isn’t like the day a typical CEO resigns

– Walt Mossberg, on why Jobs’s Departure Is the End of an Extraordinary Era