“It’s a hard living. It’s like being a sharecropper.”
EarthLink CEO Garry Betty, on the business of reselling high-speed Internet connections, News.com, 18 October 2005
Author: Alex
Alex works as a reverse engineer for Automattic Inc.
DON’T BE GLOBAL
“Developing countries, which are facing danger of terrorist attacks, have been singularly chosen to provide such high resolutions.”
Indian president A. P. J. Abdul kalam, accusing Google of singling out his country in its mapping service, The Times of India, 17 October 2005
SEVEN OF NINE WITH A REMOTE CONTROL
“It is now very hard for me to think of breast implants as just decorative. If a woman has something implanted permanently, it might as well do something useful.”
Futurologist Ian Pearson, on mixing silicon and silicone by adding MP3 players to implants, Ananova, 13 October 2005
STYLING AND REVILING
“I’ve been the copy chief at Wired News for more than seven years now, and I’ll take the poet every time.”
Tony Long, on getting paid by Koreans to tell his readers exactly why he doesn’t like them, Wired News, 13 October 2005
THROWING THE BOOK AT THEM WAS TOO EXPENSIVE
“Today, we’re closing one chapter and opening a new one in our relationship with Microsoft.”
RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser, on making nice with former boss Bill Gates and agreeing to end an antitrust lawsuit, News.com, 11 October 2005
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