SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND OUR SPONSORS

“Search has become a lot more than we think of search.”

Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, on diversifying away from the business of helping people locate websites, News.com, 27 April 2004

MY BIG FAT GREEK REALITY-AVOIDANCE MECHANISM

“I’ve found amazing variety in the world. It’s like a creative agora from ancient Greece.”

Writer Wagner James Au, describing the online world he’s paid to blog about, San Jose Mercury News, 26 April 2004

WE NEVER SHOULD HAVE GIVEN THAT MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE

“We continue to be funded by the $20 million BayStar has invested in the company.”

SCO spokesman Blake Stowell, explaining the resources the company has available to resist BayStar’s request to get its money back, eWeek, 22 April 2004

INSANELY LATE

“Engineering — if you’re innovating and not just shipping the same product everyone else is — isn’t just a science, it’s an art. Sometimes art happens on a schedule and sometimes it doesn’t.”

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, explaining why missing a ship schedule is totally cool, MacCentral, 22 April 2004