Widgets Quotes

When operating systems began integrating features that were in other systems, they were well on the road to becoming undifferentiated from each other. With widgets, they see an opportunity to win users by being unique in how free content is pulled into the system. - Ted Schadler

We're not making widgets. It might be that somebody has to create so much hate and discontent that we reach total gridlock, nobody can do anything, everybody's suing everybody, and then ... when things get dysfunctional enough, something (like stability, cooperation and some species of real government) will emerge. - John Kircher

We want to have an attractive community with all businesses having equal footing. If you want to sell widgets, you have to put the sign on the property where you're going to sell them. - Larry Green

They'll be very similar to the widgets you see in Apple's Mac OS X. - Thomas Ford

There's certainly a play for style with Apple, and they're going to use widgets for that. - Dan Kusnetzky

People go online to do specific things and widgets allow them to get to the information they want immediately, rather than calling up Web pages. - Thomas Ford

Companies will buy the widgets elsewhere. - Craig Marks

Before you consider how to deal with these issues on an individual worker level, you've got to first step back and look higher, and ask managers if they know what it means to manage knowledge workers... Our mental image of efficiency is rooted in the factory scene from Charlie Chaplin's 'Modern Times,' and managers base performance on how many widgets fly out the door. But customers and raw information aren't widgets, and you can't expect to handle them according to schedule. - Jonathan Spira