“Why stand at the far shore counting ripples when you can watch from the top of the wave? That seems easier.”
Newly hired VentureBeat executive editor Owen Thomas, doing his poor man’s Louis Rossetto while going on and on about his new job, VentureBeat, 24 March 2010
“AOL was so used to losing that they didn’t know what winning was.”
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, on the bunch of losers he encountered when he left Google for his new gig, Econsultancy, 23 March 2010
“I’m going to make a deliberate effort to respond as little as possible to outside work-related emails.”
Google Web-spam czar Matt Cutts, on his 30-day experiment in making the search engine even less human, MattCutts.com, 23 March 2010
“I know Rupert Murdoch, but I’m not going to approach him about Fox. Though they would be great. I know Bob Iger and I’m not going to approach him about ESPN. But that’s what we want.”
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, negotiating through the press for America’s Cup TV rights, Fortune, 22 March 2010
“Our objection is to those forces of totalitarianism.”
Google cofounder Sergey Brin, on moving his Chinese search engine from the mainland to Hong Kong, while continuing to maintain an iron grip on the online identities of users worldwide, Bits, 22 March 2010
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