“Google will never replace me.”
Michele Hampshire, a librarian in Mill Valley, California, on the future of her profession, The New York Times, 9 December 2004
Month: December 2004
FINDING NEVERLAND
“Understand that computing is not a commodity and really see that there is value to be added.”
Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, who apparently thinks that by closing his eyes and whispering, “I do believe in Solaris,” he can make his server business live, ComputerWeekly, 9 December 2004
CONSUMERS ARE TOO ON-DEMANDING
“The PC business is rapidly taking on characteristics of the home and consumer electronics industry, which favors economies of scale, pricing power and a focus on individual users and buyers.”
IBM CEO Sam Palmisano, explaining why the PC business no longer fits in his on-demand vision, News.com, 8 December 2004
ONCE YOU GO HACK, YOU NEVER GO BACK
“The last five years of peer to peer have enabled consumers to explore music that was otherwise inaccessible. It’s going to be very hard to expect the majority of them to turn back.”
Napster founder Shawn Fanning, on the market for his new legit file-sharing startup, News.com. 2 December 2004
IF I WANTED TO DEAL WITH SOMEONE ELSE’S PROBLEMS
“The site was down intermittently this morning. These are complex systems that have problems some times.”
Amazon.com spokesman Craig Berman, on an unplanned site outage during the company’s peak season that blocked one out of five shoppers, News.com, 6 December 2004
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