Apple
I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed. Steve Jobs, CEO Apple, interviewed by Rolling Stone in
Life
The human could be translated out of its body and into machines, free of the meat, of the flesh. We would hang there, wired into a reticulation of phosphorescent splines. Paul Ford, Just Like Heaven, in his elaborate answer to the question Is there an afterlife?
Apple
For Apple, it’s not about killing off tinkerers, but ensuring that not everybody who wants to use a computer has to be a tinkerer. Dan Moren, explaining why The iPad isn’t a third device, but a third revolution
Apple
What the user gets instead, is increased battery life, sustained performance, and reduced confusion. Smoking Apples on (the supposed lack of) multi-tasking on the iPad (Wayback Machine)
User experience
I find it hard to believe that the loss of background processing isn’t a price worth paying to have a computer that isn’t frightening anymore. Fraser Speirs, explaining why reactions to the iPad are Future Shock
Apple
Does anybody seriously believe that Android, Nokia, Samsung, Palm, BlackBerry and a dozen others would since have produced the product line they have without the 100,000 volt taser shot up the jacksie that the iPhone delivered to the entire market? Stephen Fry, iPad about
Steve Jobs - CEO Apple Inc, 1997 (via minimalmac via Fake Steve via Gizmodo)
The end result of all this is what finally shipped: the lowest common denominator, the simplest and least controversial option. Ex-Microsoft Developer Moishe Lettvin, The Windows Shutdown crapfest
The Internet is the last Wild West this world has. Help us fill it with dick jokes. Daniel O'Brien, Cracked.com
As our jobs (and lives) get more cerebral and less physical, our misunderstandings about the mind (and the self-defeating miscalculations each of us make every day) become ever more important. Seth Godin, Multiple minds
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People will strive to experience an equal or increasing level of complexity in their lives no matter what is done to reduce it. Tog, The Complexity Paradox
