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INVENT (SOMETHING ELSE FOR YOUR EMPLOYEES TO DO)

“Our goal is to create a simpler and nimbler HP.”

Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, on firing 14,500 workers, News.com, 19 July 2005

“If the mainstream media disappeared what would bloggers have left to write about?”

Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker, on the all-cat-pictures- all-the-time future of media, Niall Kennedy’s Weblog, 18 July 2005

“Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas.”

Yahoo executive Usama Fayyad, on opening a new research lab near the University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 July 2005

“During the next five or seven years, I believe it’s going to all be about the transistors.”

Applied Materials CEO Mike Splinter, on the chiphead’s view of the universe, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 July 2005

“It is clear to us that the public has moved to the Internet as the place they go when they want to get information.”

CBS executive Larry Kramer, on launching a revamped news site, including the requisite weblog, The New York Times, 13 July 2005