Mossberg Quotes

#1. That Mossberg," Boris said to me, accepting the bottle passed over the front seat. "Evil dirty thing. Sawed off
? sprays pellets here to Hamburg. Aim it way the fuck away from everyone and still you will hit half the people in the room.

Donna Tartt

#2. Sheriff Mossberg was one of those people who never stop speaking until
they are finished, so by this time he was saying: "Do you understand
these rights?"
"No, sir! Mi ne komprenas Dumbtalk!

L.J.Smith

#3. You can do all them push-ups to pump up your chest,
I got a 12 gauge Mossberg to pump up your chest,
Have you gasping for air after that shell hit your vest.
Fear me like you fear God, 'cause I bring death.

Curtis Jackson

#4. People wouldn't go on Facebook unless they wanted to share with groups of people. But there is this perception that Facebook have been on a course to push people's information where it's visible across the Internet unless they do a bunch of stuff.

Walt Mossberg

#5. If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener.

Walt Mossberg

#6. Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?

Walt Mossberg

#7. Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.

Walt Mossberg

#8. Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

Walt Mossberg

#9. I think sometimes the fashion world isn't even about clothes anymore; it's about this 'in' crowd, and I'm not into that.

Nicki Minaj

#10. I try not to make snap judgments. I never, ever make conclusions about products I've never tried.

Walt Mossberg

#11. Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.

Aldous Huxley

#12. I've been on the Web from the beginning of the Web. The good part about writing about technology is that you never run out of ideas, because it's changing so fast. The bad part is that it's changing so fast that there's a million new products and ideas every day and every week.

Walt Mossberg

#13. Books should cost less and they should be digital.

Walt Mossberg

#14. Just remember: you're not a 'dummy,' no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who-though technically expert-couldn't design hardware and software that's usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it.

Walt Mossberg

#15. I actually looked at an Apple ad from 1978. It was a print ad. That shows you how ancient it was. And it said, 'Thousands of people have discovered the Apple computer.' Thousands of people.

Walt Mossberg

#16. I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.

Walt Mossberg

#17. I've been testing RealPlayer Cloud on all these devices ... I think RealPlayer Cloud is well-designed and makes storing and sharing videos easy across different devices.

Walt Mossberg

#18. There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.

Walt Mossberg

#19. People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.

Walt Mossberg

#20. The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When we can actually choose the direction of our thoughts instead of just letting them run along the grooves of conditioned thinking, we become the masters of our own lives.

Eknath Easwaran

#21. We're all in the service business. If you hire me to do a job I expect everybody else to be where I am. A little bit of crazy is good. It keeps things - balanced.

Nia Long

#22. That GOP leadership, that establishment, they've got to get their stuff together I love what they believe in, I believe in it too. But they've got to get tough, man. You know what? It's not just the New England Patriots who are dealing with deflated balls right now.

Sarah Palin

#23. Solar Power Seen Meeting 20% of Needs by 2000; Carter May Seek Outlay Boost

Walt Mossberg

#24. Why are babies allowed to cry when they wake up, but adults crying when they wake is frowned upon? Babies are permitted to act like assholes whenever they feel like it and no one blinks ...

Chelsea Handler

#25. I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world.

Walt Mossberg

#26. Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new services, it's hard to make a move in the American cellphone world without the permission of the companies that own the pipes.

Walt Mossberg

#27. The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.

Rose Tremain