Top 353 Apple Quotes

Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who ‘took it to heart.’ What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.

In popular Egyptian and regional culture, women are seen as weak, easy victims to temptation in the same way Eve couldn’t resist that shiny apple in the Garden of Eden.

People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn’t know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.

There are times when we have to add resources to Apple, grow talent to do something that we weren’t able to do before.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

I’ve always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.

Apple is a failure because they missed social? Nobody would say that, because they are having great success.

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking about WWII without talking about the nuke. Framing the conversation just in terms of open v. closed operating systems, the quality of the hardware or software or who the CEO was, is silly.

Google’s done a super good job on search; Apple’s done a great job on the IPod.

I love making apple strudel.

Compared to Apple, Internet companies like Google and Facebook don’t have strong perspectives on the way they want the world to work.

When I get my weekly screen-time reports from Apple, it’s disturbing.

Being an app developer isn’t at all like working at Apple. There is this huge haystack of apps, and even a very shiny needle can get lost in that haystack.

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

I could make apple pie every single day. You need to be super precise in order for it to be perfect. I’m such a perfectionist that baking is calming for me. I’ve never burnt anything, thank God.

Apple’s advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn’t excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.

In the 2010 holiday quarter, Apple reported $26.7 billion in revenue, up 70 percent from a year before. That means it’s nearly as big as IBM, which did $29 billion in the same quarter.

I’ve written on Apple Macs since the early 80s – they’re lovely to use and beautiful to look at.

Gwyneth Paltrow names her kid Apple. I’m not going to let that stand.

I just love the apple. There’s no contest as far as fruit goes, in my eyes. It comes from the garden of Eden.

The first home system we had was an Apple II, and I remember playing a game called ‘Conan.’ It should have been called ‘Tarzan’ because you were essentially Conan running around a forest with a boomerang, but it was obviously Tarzan.

With the proper motivation, you can do anything. I was just a poor kid that ate pork and beans out of a can and apple sauce. I went from rags to riches. But it does take a lot of determination, inner strength, drive, and discipline.

There will be Apple Glass, and Google Glass, and RIM Glass. These companies are all working on glass. I think everyone is going to be making glass. I think we’re also going to have a glass war instead of a smartphone war.

Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much…) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers.

Children don’t really understand the concept of health. You can’t give them an apple and say ‘if you eat this you will be healthy when you’re older’ because they don’t understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.

I feel like I’m part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, ‘I’ve got to do a better job.’

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

I see the Mac being a key part of Apple for the long term, and I see growth in the Mac for the long term.

Apple is so focused on its vision that it does things in a very careful, deliberate way.

I’ve been thinking about ‘The Jetsons’ since I was a kid. But occasionally, you want ‘The Jetsons’ to come to reality. That’s what Apple is so great at: Productizing things and bringing them to you so you can be a part of it.

I’ll squeeze the cider out of your adam’s apple.

The futures of Crackle and Hulu and so forth become more and more important as we connect to more and more devices. We need our content to make our services as attractive as Apple’s or Amazon’s or Microsoft’s. We’re in a brave new world of fierce competition.

In the Mac vs. PC ads, Apple bills itself as the antidote to Microsoft. To love Apple wasn’t to sell out. It was to buy in. Most people use PCs, but Apple has the mindshare.

You can’t compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self-esteem issues.

I planted an orchard when I was 13. The impulse came from wanting to grow my own apples. That and the nursery catalog showed an apple tree with a beautiful girl standing under the fruit. Whether the flavor or the picture that did it, I’ve been hooked since.

Apple exists as a corporate entity with the protections provided by U.S. laws, but it cannot be allowed to pick and choose when to abide by those laws as it sees fit.

Apple has the radio stations, so I go R&B in the morning, and then I’ll go with some hip-hop before the game. But after the game, it’s more meditation music. It’s not artists; it’s more whatever is being played.

We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn’t forced to be the systems integrator.

As Apple continues to release new styles of netbooks, laptops, and even desktops with untold movie-watching and game-playing capabilities, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the iPhone operating system running on them – and the Macintosh eventually becoming a thing of the past.

We have to make sure, at Apple, that we stay true to focus, laser focus – we know we can only do great things a few times, only on a few products.

That has always been the objective of Apple: to do things that really enrich people’s lives. That you look back on and you wonder, ‘How did I live without this?’

I’ve been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it’s the box it comes in.

I am so disappointed in Apple. I don’t even use an iPhone anymore. Their marketing sucks. It’s embarrassing. It’s just garbage.

I just feel that in today’s world, where you’ve got computer games of all types – through Facebook, Android and Apple, for example – you put them all together and it’s an incredibly important force in all the world.

If you look back at when things like tablets and smartphones were first invented, or the Newton at Apple, that was the first attempt at VR. We didn’t even have 3D GPUS, or were just getting them.

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

Apple is on fire, delivering smash hits across its entire product line. It’s hard to think of another company that has ever been on such a roll.

I’m an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I’m apple picking. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.

The food I had as a child was not complicated, but by heck it was tasty. My Nanna’s cauliflower cheese was awesome, her caramel slice wonderful and I am still searching for a recipe to make her apple tea cake.

My go-to drink is a mix of cukes, kale, apple and other healthy stuff.

I get an incredible thrill and satisfaction from seeing somebody with Apple’s tell-tale white earbuds. But I’m constantly haunted by thoughts of, is it good enough? Is there any way we could have made it better?

I find an apple before singing really, really helps… It’s like there’s something in the pectin in the apple that helps get rid of vocal clicks.

Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.

Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.

It sounds to me like the OLED iPhone is a phone which Apple can’t make 40 million of per quarter, at least not today. And if that’s true, that means it should be more expensive. Not ‘should’ in any moral sense, but simply because that’s how the principle of supply and demand works.

Fixing mistakes is one thing. Apple’s bigger strength has been its ability to keep improving hit products.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.