Actual quotes, complaints, and wise sayings from John Siracusa as heard on 5by5's entertaining Hypercritical broadcast. Presented in reverse chronological order and totally out of context.
Bye
We did it, Dan. 100 episodes
I don’t know. I’m probably babbling at this point
I am the Steve Jobs of this sandwich! I am the person solely in charge of this sandwich, and it’s going to be insanely great
Being true to yourself and doing what you’re passionate about and recognizing that maybe that’s actually going to cause millions of people not to love you
My lasting legacy is five-degrees separated from 5by5, on some podcast somewhere, someone will mention that they’re going to do followup and have no idea why they’re doing that or where that term came from
You’re not supposed to argue with me, I’m arguing with myself
Followup exists whether we’re here or not, Dan
When he says the name of Apple’s desktop operating system, he says Oh Ess Ex instead of Oh Ess Ten. And so I’m like, ‘Hmmm’
If Merlin Mann had a younger brother, don’t you think it would be Jonathan Mann?… Sort of younger and more energetic and vibrant still. Doesn’t have those deep furrows in his face
People who were hoping for an 8 hour final episode will be disappointed. Which is appropriate, I think
Spoken and written languages should have parentheses just like programming languages do
This gigantic, comically-big, brontosaurus scroll thumb
For people who don’t know, with capacitive touch you don’t actually have to press on the glass. It doesn’t sense how hard you press, so please stop pressing really hard on your iPads cause it makes me cringe
When you pull up the preferences dialog box, the entire rest of the application is blocked. Makes no sense except once you realize that iTunes is an application originally developed for Classic Mac OS, that has been slowly changed over the years. It’s like a scarlet letter of user unfriendliness
