INFORMATION WANTS TO BE KITTENS

“The telecom industry pretends like it’s not getting paid. From our perspective, it’s been quite expensive to get to where we are … We want to see the Internet remain free.”

YouTube CEO Chad Hurley, who was acknowledged as an expert on not paying for things in recent court filings, TheWrap.com, 12 April 2010

A REAL-TIME NETWORK OF INFORMATION ABOUT WHO’S PAYING

“The idea behind Promoted Tweets is that we want to enhance the communications that companies are already having with customers on Twitter.”

Twitter COO and professional comedian Dick Costolo, keeping a straight face while pretending that Twitter’s new ads enhance anything but Twitter’s revenues, New York Times, 13 April 2010

DARLING, I DON’T THINK YOU’RE HIS TYPE

“Yes, I have a sugar daddy.”

The Daily Beast editrix Tina Brown, on how IAC chief Barry Diller keeps his pet content producer sweet, The Globe and Mail, 9 April 2010

FLASH IN THE PAN

“I am positive that there are a large number of Apple employees that strongly disagree with this latest move. Any real developer would not in good conscience be able to support this.”

Adobe evangelist and amateur psychic Lee Brimelow, ranting about Apple’s decision not to include Adobe’s cross-platform browser-crash-enabling technology in its mobile devices,

WE KNOW HALF OF THE MONEY SPENT ON ADVERTISING STARTUPS IS WASTED, WE JUST DON’T KNOW WHICH HALF

“If you need to use a task manager, you’re doing it wrong.”

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who didn’t quite admit that his company failed to buy AdMob, a mobile-advertising startup, because of an inability to multitask, CNET News, 8 April 2010