“Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
A slide accompanying Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s presentation of new iPod models, News.com, 9 September 2008
Author: owenthomas
DUDE, WHERE’S MY PATENT?
“We have interactive functions – you send in a comment, the characters will respond…. It’s very difficult.”
Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher, offering up a chat bot as an example of the innovative use of technology demonstrated by his new celebrity-gossip website, Blah Girls, Bits, 8 September 2008
NO ACCOUNTING FOR DISTASTE
“I would like to tell you about a number of organizational changes that will help us achieve our goals to better serve our customers, accelerate the speed of making fast, smart decisions, and create cleaner lines of accountability across key leaders.”
Yahoo president Sue Decker, on booting a rival executive to make way for an ally in a corporate reorganization, in an internal memo published by AllThingsD.com, 29 August 2007
THE MORE, THE INFERIOR
“I want more Internet. I want every one of the 6 billion people on the planet to be able to connect to the Internet — I think they will add things to it that will really benefit us all.”
Google executive and Internet creator Vint Cerf, on the need for more people to post amusing captioned photos of their cats, The Guardian, 27 August 2007
REST IN TCP/IP
“The days of the Internet creating explosively exciting ideas are dead.”
Internet entrepreneur Mark Cuban, who hasn’t seen those great Diet Coke and Mentos videos on YouTube, Blog Maverick, 24 August 2007
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