“With the support and cross-pollination of ideas and talent at a place like Facebook, we hope to create an even more exciting future for Instagram and Facebook alike.”
Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom, on selling out his photo-sharing service’s 30 million users to a company best known for its creative ideas about privacy, Instagram Blog, 9 April 2012
“The truth of what goes on is not on the Internet. [The Internet] can supplement. It can help advance. But the truth resides with people. Human sources.”
Legendary reporter Bob Woodward, ignoring the fact that people inhabit the Internet, Washington Post, 3 April 2012
“I have always believed that technology should do the hard work—discovery, organization, communication—so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers!”
Google CEO Larry Page—the same Larry Page who once stated his preference for messing with his PDA to looing at IAC CEO Barry Diller in a meeting—in a letter to investors posted on Google.com, 5 April 2012
“I think the Android differences were actually for show. I had a relationship with Steve.”
Google CEO Larry Page, dismissing the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s threats of “thermonuclear war” over Google’s slavishly imitative iPhone knockoffs, BusinessWeek, 4 April 2012
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