“Why did we stick with Linux? … It was because we could keep on doing exactly what we wanted.”
Google open-source program manager Chris DiBona, on the search engine’s discovery of yet another way to ignore the outside world, Computerworld, 10 August 2005
“This isn’t some pie-in-the-sky enterprise software contraption.”
Splunk CEO Michael Baum, on the log-analysis startup’s misplaced ambitions to sell software to the people who use it, News.com, 8 August 2005
“You can put us down for a ‘no comment.'”
Google nonspokesman David Krane, summarizing his employer’s PR strategy, The New York Times, 8 August 2005
“The effect of Disney and Pixar guessing wrong on this was actually not giant.”
Part-time Pixar CEO Steve Jobs, on flubbed DVD sales estimates that resulted in a a 66 percent drop in earnings, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 August 2005
“I’d have to fight word-by-word [sic] to save it from being mangled by some twenty five year old [sic] copy editor.”
Entrepreneur Paul Graham, expounding on his theory that everyone’s work can be improved by collaboration — except his own, Paulgraham.com, August 2005
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