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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Typing on my MacBook Pro and Talking on my iPhone: UX of Apple

In order of remembrance and thanks:

  • Every day that I don't have to use a machine with a Microsoft OS.

  • Rip. Mix. Burn: There was a building-high ad along the West Side Highway, on your left, heading south, just before the World Trade Center came into view.

  • Tek-Serve

  • The rubberized "Batman" laptop that everyone had in the first Silicon Alley boom. Its hotness cannot be exaggerated. Mine is still in the house, someplace.

  • The original iMac (Mine was blue.)

  • The commencement speech at Stanford.

Quotes:

http://www.macstories.net/roundups/inspirational-steve-jobs-quotes/

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/08/24/steve-jobss-best-quotes/

  • A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

  • Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works

  • "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products."

  • “Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?