“I think there’s a real opportunity now to tap into people’s interest and even anxiety about the economy.”
Jim Ledbetter, editor of The Big Money, on launching his Washington Post-backed finance site in the midst of a Wall Street crisis, The New York Times, 15 September 2008
“We are getting to a great place with scaling so we can get ahead of this tsunami.”
Twitter cofounder Biz Stone, on the blogging service’s tendency to get overwhelmed by users’ 140-character updates, CNET News, 12 September 2008
“So what’s our straightforward definition of the ideal search engine? Your best friend with instant access to all the world’s facts and a photographic memory of everything you’ve seen and know.”
Google executive Marissa Mayer, on her company’s ultracreepy future, the Official Google Blog, 10 September 2008
“It gave a personality to the system, so [employees] hate the system and not us.”
Scott Knaul, director of store operations at Ann Taylor, on picking “Atlas” as the name for a new system which schedules workers according to productivity rather than, say, when they’d like to work, Wall Street Journal, 10 September 2008
“Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
A slide accompanying Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s presentation of new iPod models, News.com, 9 September 2008
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