“We live in a universe of new media with phenomenal opportunities for worldwide communications and research — but populated by volunteer vandals with poison-pen intellects.”
Retired journalist John Seigenthaler, complaining about a Wikipedia entry that sugggested he assassinated President Kennedy, 29 November 2005
“Free is the lowest barrier to entry for acquiring a product.”
Sun Microsystems president Jonathan Schwartz, on realizing he doesn’t want to be a miser, or, for that matter, keep it like the Kaiser, 30 November 2005
“This is how technology fuels collaboration, allowing our best ideas to come together so we can speak with one voice.”
New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, on building a city Wi-Fi network that will be limited to 144 kilobits per second, The Washington Post, 29 November 2005
“We deploy a small agent onto the customer collection point — the firewall, or the syslog server. The agent is a small piece of software that collects, compresses, signs and encrypts the data before forwarding it to us.”
Symantec security executive Jeff Ogden, on how his company’s software phones home, News.com, 28 November 2005
“We would rather the information not be out there. We like to surprise people when they get their circulars in the mail.”
RadioShack spokesbot Charles Hodges, on how the company would rather consumers recycle its Thanksgiving-sale advertisements offline than seek them out online, The New York TImes, 17 November 2005
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