THE DAY THE MUSIC CHARGED

“How is it that a board set up by Congress would ask a growing business to pay more than 100% of its revenues in royalties? We’re all asking ourselves that question and, to be honest, still scratching our heads a bit.”

Yahoo Music general manager Ian Rogers, on his company’s abject failure to lobby for more profitable song-licensing fees, Yodel Anecdotal, 25 June 2007

THE GEEK FULL-EMPLOYMENT ACT

“I think security is the coolest kind of problem because it is never solved.”

Google engineering VP Douglas Merrill, on finding, at long last, an end to career obsolescence, News.com, 25 June 2007