For many reasons, I believe Instapaper would still have a market even if Apple implemented Reading List synced to iOS devices.

Marco Arment, the creator of Instapaper, a tool to save web pages for reading later on rumors of Apple adding similar feature called "Reading List" in Safari browser.

We delivered strong financial results despite a mixed PC environment, which demonstrates the strength and breadth of our businesses.

Peter Klein,

Chief Financial Officer of Microsoft, commenting on the Q3 results

Over the past three years, Microsoft has created a uniform, detailed map of the Continental United States and 17 countries in Western and Central Europe. The results are spectacular.

Quentin Hardy, an editor for Forbes in a story on Bing Maps titled Bing Maps Aerial Victory

We haven’t, as an industry, done a very good job educating people, I think, as to some of the more subtle things going on here. As such, (people) jumped to a lot of wrong conclusions in the last week.

Steve Jobs in an interview talking about the issues around location information being stored on the iPhone.

I’ll admit, I felt dirty even touching the thing, but after a few seconds I realized I was actually liking this gadget I’d shunned and written off... I’m not happy that the ipad is better, I’m bothered by it to be completely honest.

Brendan, an rabid android fanboy commenting after trying out Apple iPad 2.

There is a feeling here at Google that all good things start in a garage. Larry wanted to create the same kind of environment he and Sergey had when they started Google — a sort of a playground or sandbox for pursuing their ideas.

Greg Butterfield, an engineering lab manager who oversees the Google Workshops which offer a peek into ways Page may try to make the Internet giant work with the verve and creativity of a garage-bound entrepreneur.

If you look at Google as a media company, you are not going to understand it at all, because that is not how it thinks and operates. It's an artificial intelligence company, it's an Internet company, it's a technology company.

Tech writer Steven Levy in his new book, "In the Plex".

Oh yes they do. We don't track anyone. The info circulating around is false.

Steve Jobs response to an unnamed reader claiming both that Apple does not track users and that Android does while referring to the information about iOS shared in the media as "false".

Windows 7 has sold more than 350 million licenses. The momentum we’ve seen and continue to see with Windows 7 is incredible

Announcement in a blog post.

From the music industry’s perspective, however, there’s a big difference: Amazon started its service without getting approval from the big music labels. But Apple is actively seeking licenses for its service, and will pay the labels for the privilege.

Peter Kafka in an article titled, One Difference Between Apple’s Music Locker and Amazon’s: Label Deals

We’ve gotten to where we have gotten to faster than we thought. Now we know who is exactly writing each piece of code.

Microsoft Phone unit President Andy Lees after Microsoft signed a definitive contract with Nokia

Apple makes great products, has silly margins and continues to expand distribution with no end in sight. The perfect storm for stock price appreciation over time.

Howard Lindzon, co-founder and CEO of StockTwits in an article Apple…Overwatched and Underowned!! $AAPL

Really the only holdout — the only company that hasn't evolved as much as we would like on this [Do Not Track tool in Browsers] — is Google. But they're moving in the right direction.

FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz in an interview with POLITICO

[Photosynth’s] interaction model, look and feel are very Metro, distinctively ours, yet it works in the iPhone context. It has a distinct voice, yet remains transparent and usable. It isn’t antisocial in its approach to the platform.

Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Architect in the Bing Mobile & Bing Maps team on the design of Photosynth App for iOS devices.

Instead of pursuing independent product development, Samsung has chosen to slavishly copy Apple’s innovative technology, distinctive user interfaces, and elegant and distinctive product and packaging design

Apple in a complaint claiming Samsung Copies IPhone, IPad in Galaxy Phone, Tablet Products

It's not about [revenge]. I just felt like it's an important piece of technology history, and I should tell it like it happened, and I hope people understand and respect that

Paul Allen in 60 minutes interview over his memoir, Idea Man

But it would cause a pretty big short-term headache for Apple that, if there’s a new and very inexpensive tablet alternative from Amazon, could pose a credible (although almost certainly not fatal) threat to the iPad’s marketshare. And Apple knows this

Marco Arment, founder of Instapaper in an article, Speculation on an Amazon iPad competitor

Whenever iPhone succeeds, Google succeeds, I actually don't look at it as iPhone versus Android. iPhone is a very strong driver of query growth for Google. We also monetise apps through the iPhone..we actually benefit from iPhone's growth.

Google's Asia-Pacific president Daniel Alegre to AdNews

...It looked like a weapon. It was so sharp and jagged and full of hard lines. It looked like you could cut yourself on the edges...

Unnamed person who saw an early version of Droid, quoted in a Wired Article, The Android Explosion: How Google’s Freewheeling Ecosytem Threatens the iPhone