“We’ve had to deal with taking thousands of people out before, and taking them out globally.”
Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, making his company’s mass layoffs sound a tad violent, Big Tech, 15 September 2008
Author: owenthomas
AT LAST, FEAR AND GREED MERGE INTO ONE
“I think there’s a real opportunity now to tap into people’s interest and even anxiety about the economy.”
Jim Ledbetter, editor of The Big Money, on launching his Washington Post-backed finance site in the midst of a Wall Street crisis, The New York Times, 15 September 2008
MOST PEOPLE WOULD JUST SCALE A TREE
“We are getting to a great place with scaling so we can get ahead of this tsunami.”
Twitter cofounder Biz Stone, on the blogging service’s tendency to get overwhelmed by users’ 140-character updates, CNET News, 12 September 2008
GOOGLE WANTS TO BE YOUR FRIEND
“So what’s our straightforward definition of the ideal search engine? Your best friend with instant access to all the world’s facts and a photographic memory of everything you’ve seen and know.”
Google executive Marissa Mayer, on her company’s ultracreepy future, the Official Google Blog, 10 September 2008
ATLAS SHRUGGED
“It gave a personality to the system, so [employees] hate the system and not us.”
Scott Knaul, director of store operations at Ann Taylor, on picking “Atlas” as the name for a new system which schedules workers according to productivity rather than, say, when they’d like to work, Wall Street Journal, 10 September 2008
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