“The 21st century is a really terrible time to be a control freak.” Internet-enabled State Department functionary Jared Cohen, arguing for the abolition of his role as a policy planner, New York Times, 18 July 2010
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NO PLAN, NO POLICY, NO PROBLEM
July 18, 2010ZERO OMISSION VEHICLE?
July 12, 2010“Lying by omission is still lying.” Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, offering a detailed explanation of his public-relations strategy, TechCrunch, 11 July 2010
FIRST!
July 9, 2010“We had been working on Android a very long time, with the notion of producing phones that are Internet enabled and have good browsers and all that because that did not exist in the marketplace. I think that characterization of us entering after is not really reasonable.” Google cofounder Larry Page, longwindedly disputing Apple’s claim [...]
WE BOUGHT IT TO BE IN THE RANDOMLY SPENDING SHAREHOLDERS’ MONEY BUSINESS
June 4, 2010“We didn’t buy Palm to be in the smartphone business.” Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, on why HP spent $1.2 billion on a smartphone company, ZDNet, 2 June 2010
MAYBE NO ONE’S READY FOR THEIR CLOSEUP, MR. ZUCKERBERG
June 2, 2010“I just wished that nobody made a movie of me while I was still alive.” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, suddenly discovering empathy for users who don’t like arbitrary privacy-altering decisions made for them, either, CNET News, 2 June 2010
