The following are past weekly quotes from the front page of the Gamma Apple Pi website. Where it counts "Last quarter, Apple spent about 7.5 percent of its revenue on research and development -- more than Dell, Gateway, and Hewlett-Packard." -"Apple a Tech Survivor" from MacMinute on 1 August 2002 It figures "When I sit down in front of a Windows machine, I can't write; when I sit down in front of my Mac, I can write. So I only use Macs." -Michael Crichton Innovation December 23, 2002 "Well, to create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new, and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard." -Bill Gates Say Goodbye.. December 18, 2002 Kevin Chung, outgoing CEO, wished to submit the following as the final quote of his tenure: "Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple." -Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory If computer companies made cars... December 10, 2002 "Apple would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive -- but would run on only five percent of the roads." -unknown Words of wisdom December 3, 2002 "I think. Therefore, iMac." -Unknown A new friend November 25, 2002 "Macs are friendly to people like me." -Yo Yo Ma, Cellist Trippy November 10, 2002 "There are two major products to come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We do not believe this to be a coincidence." -Robert Firth You're the inspiration October 23, 2002 "One mark of a good tool is that it inspires you to try things you might not have dreamed of otherwise. That' s what iMovie has done for me." -San Diego Union-Tribune. August 1, 2000. One of the elite October 15, 2002 "Being a Mac user is like being a Navy SEAL: a small, elite group of people with access to the most sophisticated technology in the world, who everyone calls on to get the really tough jobs done quickly and efficiently." -Nick Lehmann Simplicity = Truth October 7, 2002 "Simplicity is the ultimate in sophistication." -Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple y2what? October 1, 2002 "We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end." -Douglas Adams, Author, on the fact that Macs had no Y2K bug A higher life form September 22, 2002 "DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form." -New York Times, November 26, 1991 Do not pass go. Do not collect 52.8 billion dollars September 15, 2002 "We're baffled that a settlement imposed against Microsoft for breaking the law should allow, even encourage, them to unfairly make inroads into education - one of the few markets left where they don't have monopoly power." -Steve Jobs, in a statement, reacts to the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit proposal. New York Times. December 3, 2001. Trying to play catch-up September 8, 2002 "Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to describe the history of the computer industry for the past decade as a massive effort to keep up with Apple." -Byte, December 1994 A use for Windows? September 4, 2002 "A Windows computer would be a good choice for a class on trouble-shooting." -The last line in a glowing Los Angeles Times article about iMacs in education. August 30, 2001. Knowledge is power August 26, 2002 "One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream of a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope, and anarchy." -Jean Louis Gassee, Former Apple Computer, Inc. Executive Soft-porn August 19, 2002 "Good software is like pornography: very hard to describe, but you recognize it right away when you see it." -Guy Kawasaki $!@#%!*$% August 12, 2002 "Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers." -Anonymous Think Different. July 22, 2002 "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently." -Nietzsche