“Google totally slimed Sun.”
Java inventor James Gosling, on Google’s liberal use of the programming language for its Android operating system, Wired, 30 April 2012
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THE SUBLIME AND THE RIDICULOUS
“We go to Twitter for breaking news, not Facebook. If it’s important, we’ll toss it onto Twitter right away. We go to Facebook only when it’s transcendent.”
Eric Carvin, the Associated Press’s social media editor, on the transcendent news-sharing power of the world’s biggest baby-photo repository, Digiday, 26 April 2012.
TAKING THE “SUCCESS” OUT OF “SUCCESSION”
“One of the primary challenges with charismatic organizations is succession.”
Forrester CEO George Colony, making the case for his own replacement in arguing that Apple is the next Sony, Forrester Blogs, 25 April 2012
UM, WHAT’S A MARKETING REPORT?
“We’re still this toddler in a grown man’s body in many ways.”
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason, comparing his online-discount empire, currently valued at $7.6 billion, to an ’80s Tom Hanks farce while drinking beer, Wall Street Journal, 26 April 2012
CAN’T WE ALL JUST NOT GET ALONG?
“Going back 17 years, Yahoo has had a culture of consensus.”
Yahoo-created billionaire loudmouth Mark Cuban, on fixing the Web giant’s systemic problems, AllThingsD, 25 April 2012
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