Simone Giertz Quotes

We will make our products work out of the box.

I don't know how we can compare the old watches we know with the functionality and the capability of the Apple Watch.

I think Apple Watch might be a tougher sell to current watch wearers than non-watch wearers. Non-watch wearers have an open wrist, and if they cared about the glance-able convenience of an always-visible watch dial, they would be wearing a traditional watch already.

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.

The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one.

At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.

We now buy watches primarily for their looks, price, or additional functions. The fact that they tell time seems lost.

The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch." - Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)

For me a watch is a really beautiful instrument. I don't so much care what time it is but I do love watches, and I love how they're constructed.

I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.

I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.

Scientists are adding an extra second to the year 2015. Yeah. Here's the bad news. You just wasted it listening to this joke.

clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.

This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the United States. I mention them chiefly because like so many benefactors of mankind they have been rewarded by total obscurity.

Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.

The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike

You've heard of plug-and-play. This is plug, unplug and play. It's so simple to use, it's unbelievable.

If I get a computer and I tune it to the Internet, it will pick up the Internet from the invisible realms that I can't see.

Rolexes never lose value, so I started getting a couple of them. I like them. Not only do they look good but they work very well.

And I knew that there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic for killing—and then long for more. That was black magic, and it was easy to use. Easy and fun. Like Legos

In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the church spire cast a long reflection on the graveyard grass; as if it were a dial (alas, the truest in the world!) marking, whatever light shone out of Heaven, the flight of days and weeks and years, by some new shadow on that solemn ground.

For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form... You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And Id say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.

One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time. Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession. And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.

You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

Cellular phones will absolutely not replace local wire systems.