“We each have our own unique view or vista of this digital world. Windows Vista is going to bring more clarity to that.”
Microsoft middle manager Greg Sullivan, regurgitating the rationale for naming his company’s latest version of Windows “Vista,” News.com, 22 July 2005
“Zazzle is a way to take all those unique, individual, and custom expressions of self and realize them in expressions generally of things, be they apparel, or posters, or stamps.”
Venture capitalist John Doerr, on why he and other investors put down $16 million for a piece of a T-shirt printing operation, BusinessWeek Online, 21 July 2005
“The trouble begins when you want to add things to it, add some services and things like that. Because of the brittle nature of the platform, when you do that, other things break.”
Microsoft executive Martin Taylor, getting Linux and Windows mixed up again, News.com, 20 July 2005
“Our goal is to create a simpler and nimbler HP.”
Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, on firing 14,500 workers, News.com, 19 July 2005
“If the mainstream media disappeared what would bloggers have left to write about?”
Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker, on the all-cat-pictures- all-the-time future of media, Niall Kennedy’s Weblog, 18 July 2005
http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2005/07/newsweek_and_ti.html
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