WE NEVER SHOULD HAVE GIVEN THAT MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE

“We continue to be funded by the $20 million BayStar has invested in the company.”

SCO spokesman Blake Stowell, explaining the resources the company has available to resist BayStar’s request to get its money back, eWeek, 22 April 2004

INSANELY LATE

“Engineering — if you’re innovating and not just shipping the same product everyone else is — isn’t just a science, it’s an art. Sometimes art happens on a schedule and sometimes it doesn’t.”

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, explaining why missing a ship schedule is totally cool, MacCentral, 22 April 2004

AND HERE I’D ALREADY BOOKED A NIGHTCLUB TO CELEBRATE

“The Internet isn’t going down tonight.”

Chris Rouland, vice president of Internet Security Systems’ X-Force, on a flaw that could threaten the Internet’s stability, InternetWeek, 20 April 2004

THE MASSED WASTELAND

“Broadcasting is the original mass media. On the other end, there’s a rise of a digital generation that has access to highly individualized and customized news and information.”

FCC chairman Michael Powell, on the risk that people will stop watching Friends in favor of reading friends’ blogs, News.com, 20 April 2004

LIGHTS, CAMERA, COMPILE!

“We have entered an era in which every process and all content is going from analog, static and physical to digital, mobile and virtual.”

Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, on her plans to digitize all of Hollywood’s studios, at which point we can outsource it all to Bombay, News.com, 19 April 2004