“I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o'clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that's why we're called Apple.” ThreeNamesInterestingBusinessCompanyCreativityFiveMonthsGeniusComputerLateFruitStuckClockApplesThreatenedGarbageThree MonthsFilingGarbage Cans Author:Steve Jobs
“I use Windows; '98 second edition and it works very good for me. You know, I just started on the computer about 9 months ago and am fascinated with the possibilities. I don't know what I would do without it now.” KnowsUsePossibilityMonthsComputerWindowVery GoodFascinated Author:Jimmy Carl Black
“It's can you, Steve Wozniak, design the same computer - maybe it's a Varian 620i - can you design it on paper with fewer chips than last month? Can you design it with 79 chips instead of 80 chips? I had played this game so long that I had all these little tricks in my head that I can't even explain... Nothing was wasted; absolutely zero waste. I told this story recently to the Resource Recovery Association, recycling, and they loved to hear I didn't believe in waste.” BelieveLittlesLongI CanStoriesLastsGamesDesignMonthsWastePaperComputerResourcesTricksRecoveryZeroAssociationFewerChipsRecycling Author:Steve Wozniak
“I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the slum was revisited after a month, the children of that slum had learned how to use the worldwide web.” ChildrenUseWallMonthsInternetComputerProjectsConnectionsInspiredHolesSlumsDelhiInternet Connection Author:Sugata Mitra
“Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.” IfsArtStatesNamesCompanyImagineMonthsDevelopmentComputerApplesCopiesSoftwareRestraintCopyingSoftware Development Author:Bill Gates
“I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails. So it's really about two and a half months that I'll feel like I can recover some silence in my life...which is so hard to find.” FeelsI CanTwoHardHalfSilenceMonthsComputerSummerMailTelephonesMaineFax Author:Alan Lightman
“You'll still work with some directors where that doesn't happen, and sometimes it's out of necessity because you're in a really complicated, choreographed fight scene and the whole thing is being prevised in a computer, so it's been decided months before, but I think that's sneaking into the way action scenes are shot.” ThinkingWayStillsSometimesWholeHappensActionFightingMonthsSceneDirectorsComputerShotsDecidedComplicated Author:Paul Bettany
“3D is like a computer. Every six months that computer that was state of the art is now obsolete.” ArtStatesMonthsSixComputerArt IsSix MonthsObsolete Author:Carl Mazzocone
“The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers.” GovernmentDecisionMonthsComputerExtraordinaryDecision MakingLicenseImportsVelocityDelhi Author:N. R. Narayana Murthy
“I've never had so much fun being back at my job sitting in front of my computer. Compared to 10 months on the road, going home and sleeping in my own bed every night is really nice.” HomeJobsNightFunMy OwnSleepNiceFrontsMonthsBedComputerSittingEvery NightReally NiceGoing HomeSleeping In Author:Matt Berninger
“I use a computer, but before I begin each new book I keep a notebook. I write down everything that comes to mind during that period before I actually begin. It might take months or weeks. That notebook is my security blanket so that I never have to face a blank screen (or blank page). But I print out often and my best ideas usually come with a pencil in my hand.” WritingMindBookIdeasUseHandsMightFacesWeekSecurityMonthsPeriodsComputerPagesScreensPrintBlankPencilsBlanketNotebookNew BooksBlank Pages Author:Judy Blume
“I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas.” LawPowerfulMonthsComputerAssumingChristmasToysPhysicistAppliancesMoore's Law Author:Michio Kaku
“Today the patent office is obsolete. You just take whatever you do, tool up, and start production for six months. At the end of the six months you put the data on all the computer inputs all over the world and you got your business. You can make all your money, and then people can steal it, but by then it doesn't matter because you've made the money up front and you avoid wasting money in lawsuits. [My father] had all these kinds of ideas years ahead of others.” PeopleWorldYearsKindMadeIdeasEndsMatterTodayFatherFrontsMonthsOfficeSixComputerToolsProductionsStealingDataSix MonthsObsoleteInputPatentsLawsuitWasting Money Author:Paul Laffoley
“If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great job, paying really well, in less than three months. How? Learn to program.” IfsWellsJobsThreeLevelsMonthsRight NowComputerProgramGuaranteesThree MonthsGreat Job Author:Tucker Max