“In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for his health.” UseBrandsEaseCigaretteShellsUnixEase Of Use Author:Chris Espinosa
“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.” TwoPlansProductsHorribleGapsUnthinkableGrandioseMacintosh Author:Chris Espinosa
“When I want to do something mindless to relax, I reinstall Windows 95.” WantWindowRelaxMindless Author:Jean-Louis Gassee
“One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope and anarchy.” DreamOrderMysteryLustSymbolsColourAppropriateAnarchyRainbowLogos Author:Jean-Louis Gassee
“Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole community. It was only the vast fatigue which was experienced by the generation on which the multitudes of discoveries and innovations burst abruptly, imposing on it organic exigencies greatly surpassing its strength, which created favourable conditions under which these maladies could gain ground enormously, and become a danger to civilization.” WholeCommunityGenerationsConditionsDangerCivilizationDiscoveryGainsImportanceInnovationMultitudesFatigueImposingHysteriaMaladySurpassingDegeneration Book:Degeneration Source: Degeneration
“Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.” HumansPersonsLawJusticeNumbersPrinciplesCrimeCitizensCivilizationBuiltDignityUltimatePropertyEqualityPunishmentHuman LifeGood Citizen Author:Max Nordau
“How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold jubilant peace conferences in which they talk against war. . . . But the same righteous Governments, who are so nobly, industriously active to establish the eternal peace, are preparing, by their own confession, complete annihilation for six million people, and there is nobody, except the doomed themselves, to raise his voice in protest although this is a worse crime than any war . . .” PeopleWarGovernmentVoiceMillionsProgressCrimeSixEternalMouthsRaisesDareActiveCleverOfficialsProtestRighteousConfessionSmoothDoomedPreparingBoastConferencesAnnihilationTalkersAgainst WarEternal Peace Author:Max Nordau
“Let me tell you the following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading upward and upward: Herzl; the Zionist Congress; the English Uganda proposition; the future world war; the peace conference where with the help of England a free and Jewish Palestine will be created.” IfsWorldWarHelpingLet MeEnglandCongressFollowingWar Of The WorldsPropositionsPalestineConferencesLaddersZionistZionismUgandaFuture World Author:Max Nordau
“The Hebrew language will go from the synagogue to the house of study, and from the house of study to the school, and from the school it will come into the home and... become a living language” HomeSchoolHouseLanguageStudyHebrewSynagogueLexicographerHebrew Language Author:Eliezer Ben-Yehuda