98 Macintosh Quotes
Following is our list of macintosh quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about macintosh computers.
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Famous Macintosh Quotes
Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray.(when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac ) — Seymour Cray
The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There is no evidence that people want to use these things. — John C. Dvorak
OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it. — Nat Friedman
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay. — Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs doesn't use a Mac, and won't, because it's too crappy in his opinion. — Steve Wozniak
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. — Steve Wozniak
The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. — Wernher Von Braun
Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing as taking a walk in the woods. — Mark Weiser
I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type. — Andy Hertzfeld
A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows — Linus Torvalds
Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light. — David Ferrier
Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits. — Henry David Thoreau
The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers. — Eric S. Raymond
An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach. — George du Maurier
Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world. — Satya Nadella
Short Macintosh Quotes
- The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC. — Bill Gates
- It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it. — Steve Jobs
- If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today. — Jef Raskin
- I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display. — Bill Joy
- Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh. — Melinda Gates
- My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible. — Buffy Sainte-Marie
- The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%. — Douglas Adams
- The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec. — Marcus Dolengo
Smart Quotes
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. — John C. Maxwell
When someone isn’t smart enough to express their frustration, they use dirty words. Those are words that describe a lack of intelligence. Smart people don’t use those kind of dirty words, because they find it an insult to their intelligence. — Nouman Ali Khan
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. — Norm Crosby
A lot of people like to fool you and say that you're not smart if you never went to college, but common sense rules over everything. That's what I learned from selling crack. — Snoop Dogg
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese — Steven Wright
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. — Bill Gates
The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people. — Stephen Hawking
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. — James A. Baldwin
All the smart money got they bets on me / And all the real niggas wish the best for me — Nipsey Hussle
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Macintosh Computers Quotes
Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. — Steve Jobs
I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end". — Douglas Adams
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984. — Kevin Mitnick
This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. — Steve Jobs
The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one. — Steve Jobs
Everything that I've learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles: Unix: You think it won't work, but if you find the right wizard, they can make it work. Macintosh: You think it will work, but it won't. PC/Windows: You think it won't work, and it won't. — Philip Greenspun
I found that I loved producing that kind of propaganda and I loved the power that a few students with a Macintosh computer could wield. I was hooked on communications at that point. — Lewis Schiff
I am a night creature, and I write from midnight till dawn, secluded in my office and surrounded by my collection of dragons (I have 400 of them). I only use Macintosh computers, which I name in dynastic order. Right now I'm using MacDragon 5. Only the devil is able to decipher my handwriting. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople get ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report. — Dave Barry
Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous, fresh as a new peach, yet scrawling on a yellow legal pad like an old maid in a Victorian romance. — Stephen King
Macbook Quotes
The beautiful part of the cloud is, you know, it’s unlimited capacity, in theory. — Eric Yuan
I have always been a big fan of MAC! I like how the brand turns makeup into a form of self-expression which always gives me great confidence on stage. — Lisa Manoban
Who knows? He [Elon Musk] is a weird guy… He is a true genius and look at the world fundamentally differently than most people do. — Charles Hoskinson
Together with MAC, I am excited to invite and empower more audiences as we both have individuality and diversity at our core. — Lisa Manoban
I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column. — Eric Alterman
My Macbook is my new boyfriend, except that he's dependable and meets all my demands. — Jessica Zafra
The two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed. — Biz Stone
When I'm on the couch, I usually have the TV on and my MacBook Air nearby. And sometimes, when my ADD is really kicking in, I have my iPad too. And my iPhone. And a magazine that I haven't gotten to. And a book under the pillow to my left. — Sayings
I didn't realize how slow my four-year-old MacBook was until the web team wanted to start using it as the benchmark for a slow computer experience. — Chris Milk
I got my MacBook in the first year at university, and that's really when I stopped playing live instruments and started geeking out on my laptop. — Ryan Hemsworth
People Writing About Macintosh
More Macintosh Quotes
The world is a big place. There are lots of smart people in it. Entrepreneurs are kidding themselves if they think they have any kind of monopoly on knowledge. And, sure as I'm a Macintosh user, on the same day that an entrepreneur tells this lie, the venture capitalist will have met with another company that's doing the same thing. — Guy Kawasaki
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
The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about. — Steve Jobs
I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art. — Steve Jobs
Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh. — Steve Jobs
The boards had to be beautiful in Steve [Jobs]'s eyes when you looked at them, even though when he created the Macintosh he made it impossible for a consumer to get in the box, because he didn't want people tampering with anything. — John Sculley
October arrives in a swirl of fragrant blue leaf smoke, the sweetness of slightly frosted MacIntosh apples, and little hard acorns falling. We are in the midst of cool crisp days, purple mists, and Nature recklessly tossing her whole palette of dazzling tones through fields and woodlands. — Jean Hersey
If Macintosh hadn't been successful, then I should have just thrown in the towel, because my vision of the whole industry would have been totally wrong. — Steve Jobs
The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people — Andy Hertzfeld
I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore. — Steve Jobs
If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago. — Steve Jobs
I just had a romance that I really care about, a lot-I mean, a lot-go up in smoke. Because of the stress, and the sort of other woman that Macintosh is. — Steve Jobs
We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh. — Andy Hertzfeld
By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited. — Lawrence Lessig
On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone? — Walter Isaacson
The grandiose plans of what Macintosh was gonna be was just so far out of whack with the truth of what the product was doing. And the truth of what the product was doing was not horrible, it was salvageable. But the gap between the two was just so unthinkable that somebody had to do something, and that somebody was John Sculley. — Chris Espinosa
The two most important things about people on a revolutionary team are their ability and passion. Their educational level or work experience is meaningless--most of the engineers who did ground-breaking work of the Macintosh design didn't even graduate from college. — Guy Kawasaki
Look back to the old days: people bought an MS DOS machine and struggled with it for weeks to bring it up to speed. Then Apple created Macintosh, struggled a bit with it, but eventually succeeded. Then it went into other businesses. If your company truly wants to change the world, it would make these problems go away for customers. — Guy Kawasaki
I hate mice. The mouse involves you in arm motions that slow you down. I didn't want it on the Macintosh, but Jobs insisted. In those days, what he said went, good idea or not. — Jef Raskin
To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard. — Bill Gates
Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields. — Steve Jobs
Andy [Hertzfeld], just by nature, is one of these straight shooters. A very moral guy, kind of an open book. Along with being brilliant and one of the original members of the Macintosh team, he has a really generous spirit. — Michael Stuhlbarg
It was 4 or 5 years into my first design job before the idea of doing graphic design on computers started taking hold. I started working in 1980, the Macintosh was introduced in 1984, then the real desktop publishing only started coming around in 85-86, but it wasn't really until the end of the decade that the transition became irresistible. — Michael Bierut
I think a lot more people are able to take on a design challenge than ever before. And this was true 20 years ago when the desktop publishing revolution came about that allowed people with Macintosh's at home to produce professional-looking newsletters or publications for the first time. So, there's a long march toward more democratization for design. — Khoi Vinh
I was asked to do TV ads for Macintosh. Nowadays, I think anybody would jump at that but, at the time, it didn't feel appropriate for what I was trying to stand for. — DJ Shadow
The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got a 28mm. Then I started a little punk magazine, a zine, when I was 14 or 15 years old. I was shooting my friends skateboarding and it was the beginning of the Macintosh. We wouldn't do layouts on the computer; we would pick the font and then type up a paragraph and then print it out and cut it up and put it in a little mock-up and Xerox it. — Jeff Vespa
As for the Sun mouse, I'm not a big multi-button mouse fan, because I just can't remember which button to push when. I rather like the Macintosh system of using four modifier keys with the mouse. — Bruce Tognazzini
Jolt is for Windows programmers. It's typical IBM PC: it goes in brown and comes out yellow. Mountain Dew is for Macintosh programmers: it goes in yellow and comes out yellow. It's WYSIWYP. — Guy Kawasaki
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