Daniel Lyons Quotes

Americans like to add the word 'super' when they're describing things.

I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.

I overdramatize.

Swear you'd rather die than use 'literally' as an intensifier.

I knew a lot about product design before coming to Apple, but I didn't understand a lot about consumer experience design, which is really Apple's forte.

Things are rarely as exciting or dramatic as we make them out to be in the press.

Apple, at its best, isn't a technology leader.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

Here's the thing about Apple, we complain and they give us more battery life. We complain and they'll give us more stuff. Everything's beta right now. Everything's experimental. They really don't know what people want.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

What Apple did for technology is brilliant, but they didn't do nothin' for our economy.

Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.

I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama.

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.

I try to refrain from the alarmist statement, really I do. It's bad for the liver and worries the dog, who has plenty enough to worry about as it is.

The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.

When looking out the window and watching the water becomes a drama, then literally everything is a drama.

Never a man to understate matters

Everything isn't breaking news. You can't go to DEFCON One just because Sanjay Gupta found a new moisturizer.

I'm prone to hyperbole.

Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.

Liberals always cry wolf.

Sometimes '24' can seem a little grand. Sometimes these things can seem a little outlandish.