“The Internet has made a platform where anyone can become a star.”
Larry Weintraub, CEO of Fanscape, an L.A.-based new-media marketing agency, on the puzzling success of freaky people on YouTube, News.com, 8 August 2007
Month: August 2007
INK DIFFERENT
“That’s what you’re here for! To write about our products.”
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, patiently explaining Silicon Valley reporters’ job duties to them, Gizmodo, 7 August 2007
THE SECRET EXPIRY OF STEVE JOBS
“If I really thought the Apple guys were going to find this guy and kill him, I wouldn’t want to do it.”
Forbes editor Dan Lyons, on hoping that the ex-Mossad security guys he joked about as Fake Steve Jobs weren’t for real, The New York Times, 6 August 2007
I’D NEVER SHORT MY BUDDIES
“Long.”
Automattic CEO and Meebo investor Toni Schneider, recommending the Web-IM service without disclosing his conflict of interest, Wallstrip, 3 August 2007
NO LAUGHING-GAS MATTER
“We are reaching for the stars, and it is not easy. Accidents happen. Good people die. And we move on.”
Space Frontier Foundation cofounder Rick Tumlinson, on a nitrous-oxide accident that killed three at Scaled Composites’ facility at the Mojave airport, Wired.com, 2 August 2007
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