Susan Orlean Quotes

I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it.

My perspective is this: my allegiance is to the best product for my needs. For a computer, this means Macintosh. For phone and tablet, this means Android.

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.

I appreciate all the devices the Windows people are coming up with, but the operating system... I just want to smash it.

I think the only reason people use PCs is because they have to. Mac is the most streamlined computer there is. I started using the Mac in college because I was doing editing, and they were the only computers we could use to do that.

I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.

I'm a Mac user. I think it depends on how you were brought up, and I was introduced to Apple quite early. They're certainly the best for visual stuff and film-directing.

I have a PC because I don't know how to use a Mac. Actors always have Macs with them, and when I try to use someone else's, I can't get the hang of it. It's very strange; I don't like it.

I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.

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.

It's like PlayStation-Xbox. I like both. So nothing against Mac, but I do use Windows.

People everywhere love Windows.

I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.

How you feel about the modern, multitouch tablet depends a lot on what you think Steve Jobs and company set out to do with the iPad back in 2010. If you believe he was out to make a bigger smartphone or to entirely replace the Mac and PC, you're wrong.

It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'

Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.

Windows is the best place; it's the home for the very best Microsoft experiences.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

When I first got to Apple, which was in '84, the Mac was already out, and 'Newsweek' contacted me and asked me what I thought of the Mac. I said, 'Well, the Mac is the first personal computer good enough to be criticized.'

Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.

I personally am a user of iPhones and iPods.

The iPhone is so easy to use and navigate - I'd be lost without it.

I've had the iPad for a nice little minute, not into gadgets like that, though.

Apple makes great hardware. The reality is, in the OS, we see things differently.

In addition to making Android available for free, Google also lets phone makers change the code and customize it so that an Android phone made by, say, Samsung has a different user interface than an Android phone from Motorola.