“I’m not going to buy another router company for a router. I could not be more comfortable with our routing strategy.”
Cisco CEO John Chambers, speaking at an investor conference shortly before buying another router company, The Wall Street Journal, 15 June 2004
“If I had tried to demand fees … there would be no World Wide Web. There would be lots of small webs.”
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, on achieving ubiquity through impecunity, CNN.com, 15 June 2004
“One day, 2 or 3 billion people will have cell phones, and they are all not going to have PCs. The mobile phone will become their digital life.”
PalmOne chief technology officer Jeff Hawkins, on how the masses will geek out, Newsweek, 14 June 2004
“The weather scares us a bit, but on the other hand we know a lot of people up there, and they all seem happy. And it’s bound to be less crazy than Silicon Valley.”
Linux creator Linus Torvalds, on moving from California to Oregon, News.com, 11 June 2004
“The foods we eat, the medicine we take, the air we breathe are being taken over by corporations.”
Activist Sue Skinner, on why she decided to protest a biotech conference in San Francisco, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 June 2004
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