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Car accidents kill so many of us; we're not going to give up cars, so it seems like we ought to make them harder to crash.

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I went to Drexel University, majored in computer science. Drexel has a great program - they call it co-op - but its, like, mandatory to graduate to do internships. I loved it because it helped me figure out very quickly that I didn't really want to be a programmer.

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The iPhone was the first phone that brought what we used to think of as 'desktop quality' software to a handheld platform: software where you just say, 'Wow, that's a great user experience,' not merely, 'Wow, that's a great user experience for a handheld.'

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I've always said my audience is just me. It's somebody out there who's exactly like me and just isn't writing Daring Fireball.

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I always thought of myself as more of a columnist, but maybe a columnist who does reporting.

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It was very deliberate that Daring Fireball wasn't defined as a Mac site or an Apple site, and this was fortuitous.

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Is everyone who uses a MacBook Pro a pro? No. It's just basically a faster Mac. And certainly, pros do use them, partly for that reason.

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As a company itself, Apple is very easy to understand. They're really not a complex company.

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There are a lot of people I dislike in the world. I mean, a lot. I don't follow any of them on Twitter.

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'The cloud' is effectively an augmentation of our brains' memories.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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