“For us to be gagged so we can’t criticize other Sims is an enormous frustration. You can’t improve this society without being able to talk about what’s wrong with it.”
Sims Online player Catherine Fitzpatrick, who’s apparently unaware that there’s a whole world she’s free to complain about, if she’d only bother to log off, The New York Times, 15 January 2004
“Windows is about choice — you can mix and match software and music player stuff.”
Microsoft executive Dave Fester, criticizing HP for bundling Apple’s iTunes Music Store and making it clear that everyone should feel free to create Windows-based music stores selling Windows Media-encoded songs to play on Windows-compatible players, New York Post, 14 January 2004
“We’re the company selling all the picks and shovels to the gold miners.”
Loudeye CEO Jeff Cavins, on his company’s mission to help others lose money selling music online, The New York Times, 12 January 2004
“We are interested in maintaining a dialogue with consumer advocacy groups like CASPIAN as we move forward in rolling out EPC and RFID.”
Grocery Manufacturers Association spokesman Richard Martin, on seeking personal information about an anti-RFID tag activist in an effort to embarrass her, Wired News, 12 January 2004
“This is not a business that our research and development power could bring anything to.”
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, on spending billions of dollars discovering he couldn’t make the Internet proprietary, The New York Times, 8 January 2004
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