Internet
It's not about Personal Computer
It’s not about Personal Computer... it’s about *Interpersonal* Computing Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the WWW, quoting Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer
Latest
He transformed our lives, redefined entire industries
He transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: he changed the way each of us sees the world. President Barack Obama, on the Passing of Steve Jobs
The fact that it's easy to write web pages
The fact that it’s easy to write web pages doesn’t mean that it’s easy to produce a good mobile app using HTML Tom Hume, on the cost of cross-platform web apps, taking the Financial Times’ web app as an example.
Psychology
How much e-mail’s in your in box
Inbox Zero does not mean how much e-mail’s in your inbox. It’s how much of your brain is in your inbox when you don’t want it to be Merlin Mann, inventor of Inbox Zero, quoted in the Confessions of an inbox obsessive (Wayback Machine)
Web
De URL is het document
De URL is het document. Arjen Kamphuis in zijn column over documentformaten, Its a trap! (Wayback Machine)
Apple
The day Steve Jobs resigns
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
Apple
To Apple, being in the App Store is a privilege
To Apple, being in the App Store is a privilege — not the whole ballgame. John Gruber of Daring Fireball, on the App Store vs. Mobile Web Apps
Religion
The reason people use a crucifix against vampires
The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is that vampires are allergic to bullshit. Richard Prior, 1972, quoted on LOL god
Entrepreneurship
Always blame yourself
Always blame yourself. Its the only way your problems get solved. Mike Markson, in his Note to Entrepreneurs: It’s Your Fault (Wayback Machine)
Cloud computing
Every dollar you spend on software from Microsoft
Every dollar you spend on software from Microsoft, you spend $6 trying to get it to do anything. Microsoft’s Ron Markezich, interviewed on the day Office 365 Hits Public Beta
User experience
The only problem Chromebooks appear to solve
The only problem Chromebooks appear to solve is the user problem. Datamation, Chromebook: The Computer for the Rest of Them
Usability
Apparently splash screens are super-vampires
Apparently splash screens are super-vampires that can haunt users from beyond the grave Jakob Nielsen, on iPad Usability