“I can’t speak to what … Longhorn will be.”
Microsoft product manager Mario Juarez, displaying a charming coyness on what, exactly, his colleagues will be up to for the next two years, News.com, 5 May 2004
Author: Alex
Alex works as a reverse engineer for Automattic Inc.
SHORT TEMPER
“I don’t give a fuck about your stock price!”
Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg, delicately sharing his feelings with XM Satellite Radio CEO Hugh Panero, Wired, May 2004
MARKET FARCES
“If we don’t enter this market, then exactly what happened to the music industry could happen to us.”
BBC new media director Ashley Highfield, on the fear that failing to post the Beeb’s programming online could lead to bloated salaries and ridiculously overpriced product, 3 May 2004
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=517636
PLAY NICE OR I’LL TAKE MY STANDARDS AND GO HOME
“If there turns out to be a problem, the silver lining is that it would force coordination amongst aggregator developers. I would love to build that system. But these ideas all cost money and require developers to play nice.”
Dave Winer, on the problem of blog-reading software overloading websites, Wired News, 30 April 2004
I’M FEELING LUCKY
“Do not be surprised if we place smaller bets in areas that seem very speculative or even strange.”
Google cofounder Larry Page, on his plan to take shareholders’ money and run R&D projects, SEC.gov, 29 April 2004
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