“Ultimately they made the choice to anthropomorphize the hardware platform to a human being.”
Microsoft chief marketing strategist David Webster, demonstrating that the quest to humanize Microsoft’s image begins very close to home indeed, CNET News, 29 March 2010
“We’ve seen cities rename themselves, great YouTube videos, public rallies and hundreds of grassroots Facebook groups come to life, all with the goal of bringing ultra high-speed broadband to their communities.”
Google product manager James Kelly, on the more than 190,000 sacrificial offerings he and his fellow Googler deities have received from supplicant communities praying at the altar of broadband, Official Google Blog, 26 March 2010
“There’s a paranoia I live with. Somewhere in the world, right now, there’s a salesman talking with a customer–I hope he is as good as I need him to be.”
Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, obsessing over his salespeople rather than his engineers, Forbes, 25 March 2010
“The medium is waiting for its Orson Welles.”
Time managing editor Richard Stengel, on why he’s creating an iPad edition of his magazine even though no one has any idea what it should look like, Digits, 25 March 2010
“Focusing on that one review you feel is unfair misses the value, which is the whole symphony of opinions you get on your page.”
Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, denying that there’s any orchestration between his site’s angry-hipster-generated reviews and his salespeople, New York Times, 25 March 2010
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