“ Anyone who knows how to run Activity Monitor can observe that even the most trivial use of Flash within in a webpage eats up extraordinary resources. If Greenpeace were a legitimate environmental watchdog, it would target Flash as a bigger threat than PVC and BFRs combined, just by the composite amount of energy it consumes to do absolutely nothing of value.
“ I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
W. C. Fields
(This is how I feel when it comes to UK elections; I don’t particularly think any of the parties are good, but I definitely don’t want the Tories to win…)
“ You’re entitled to your own opinion — but you’re not entitled to your own facts.
Michael Specter
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“ Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won’t know it, and may even vigorously deny it.
Richard Dawkins
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“ No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don’t like their jobs, they don’t go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed.
Homer Simpson
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“ I cannot emphasise enough this point: “Hold your judgment until you’ve spent five minutes with it”. No YouTube film, no promotional video, no keynote address, no list of features can even hint at the extraordinary feeling you get from actually using and interacting with one of these magical objects. You know how everyone who has ever done Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? always says, “It’s not the same when you’re actually here. So different from when you’re sitting at home watching.”? You know how often you’ve heard that? Well, you’ll hear the same from anyone who’s handled an iPad. The moment you experience it in your hands you know this is class. This is a different order of experience. The speed, the responsiveness, the smooth glide of it, the richness and detail of the display, the heft in your hand, the rightness of the actions and gestures that you employ, untutored and instinctively, it’s not just a scaled up iPhone or a scaled-down multitouch enhanced laptop – it is a whole new kind of device. And it will change so much. Newspapers, magazines, literature, academic text books, brochures, fliers and pamphlets are going to be transformed (poor Kindle). Specific dedicated apps and enhancements will amaze us. You will see characters in movies use the iPad. Jack Bauer will want to return for another season of 24 just so he can download schematics and track vehicles on it. Bond will have one. Jason Bourne will have one. Some character, in a Tron like way, might even be trapped in one.
Stephen Fry
“ We want to kick of 2010 by introducing a magical and revolutionary product.
Steve Jobs
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“ When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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“ Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
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“ All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain
“ Any religion that asks people to stop asking questions and just have faith is a religion without good answers. Atheists don’t tell people to have faith in God’s non-existence: we encourage people to ask questions and think about their beliefs. If your religion is telling you to stop asking questions, ask yourself: Why would they ask that of me?
“ Marriage used to be one man making a gift of a piece of property to another man. One man gave the property called daughter to another man and it became the property called wife. She had no rights. She was his thing. She could be disposed of, beaten, she couldn’t own property… That went on for millenia. And then straight people, to their credit, in the West, said, ‘You know what? Fuck this,’ and re-defined marriage. And what is it now? It’s two equal, legally autonomous individuals who have made a commitment to each other. What defines their commitment? Ask them! It can be monogamos, or not. They can have children, or not. It can be a religious ritual, or not. It can be for life, or not. It’s up to them! …It’s only now when gay people have looked at that institution and said, ‘We deserve in. We deserve equal rights and equal treatments. Our relationships deserve the same protections and responsibilities,’ that people say, ‘Oh, no, marriage is about monogamy and children.’ Really?
Dan Savage
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“ The Buddhists say we come back as animals and they refer to them as lesser beings. Well, animals aren’t lesser beings, they’re just like us. So I say f—k the Buddhists
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