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"I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it."
"There are five kinds of incendiary attack: The first is called setting fire to personnel; the second, to stores; the third, to transport vehicles and equipment; the fourth, to munitions; the fifth, to supply installations...In all cases an army must understand the changes induced by the five kinds of incendiary attack, and make use of logistical calculations to address them."
"I use music as a medium to talk to people."
"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."
"We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac."
"It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence."
"This [Scientology] is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become saner. By its use the thousand abilities Man has sought to recover become his once more."
"The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it."
"Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity."
"Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish."
"The most complete seems lacking. Yet in use it is not exhausted."
"To examine oneself makes good use of sight."
"Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?"
"There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small."
"We tend to use knowledge as therapy."
"I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one."
"Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly."
"I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use."
"those who use the word 'lifestyle' are rarely in possession of either."
"I don't use computers... I'm someone who needs to see the page right away in my hand."
