Month: September 2004

“Are we meeting the specific goals this year? Not to the agressive levels we’ve set.”

Intel executive Abhi Talwalkar, explaining the Itanium chip’s failure in the blunt language of Santa Clara, News.com, 8 September 2004

“The hype about everything going digital is over. What happened when Nokia grew in the 1990’s was that Finland was suddenly an interesting place. Now the situation has changed, and we are back in normal times.”

Finnish professor Ilpo Koskinen, on the welcome return of Nordic ennui to the land of Linux and cell phones, The New York TImes, 4 September 2004

“The real future of Burning Man is off the playa, in the regionals.”

Burning Man founder Larry Harvey, on his desperate wish that attendees of his rave in the Nevada desert would find somewhere else to go, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 September 2004

“It’s an extremely rare Microsoft product for its emphasis on a simple, clean user experience.”

A wisely anonymous Microsoft employee, on the launch of the MSN Music store, Wired News, 3 September 2004

“Madonna sees the future of the music business tied intimately to the wireless space.”

Caresse Henry, Madonna’s manager, making the singer’s plan to sell ringtones online sound much sexier than it actually is, CNN.com, 24 August 2004