“Yahoo has been doing way too much for too long and has only been doing a few things well.”
Yahoo CEO du jour Scott Thompson, on delicately pruning the company’s imperial overreach, AllThingsD, 17 April 2012
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A GOLDEN BOOT ON THE ACCELERATOR
“If we ever see breakout opportunities that massively accelerate social gaming at Zynga, we’ll aggressively pursue those, too.”
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus, vowing to overpay for startups like Draw Something maker OMGPOP, Bloomberg, 17 April 2012
WHEN STEVE JOBS SAID “THINK DIFFERENT,” HE WASN’T TALKING TO THIS GUY
“As our company has grown we had begun researching film production, and when the idea of a movie about Steve Jobs sprang up, we knew we wanted to pursue it.”
First-time movie producer Mark Hulme, on why he switched from organizing mortgage conferences to backing Ashton Kutcher vehicles, Neowin, 14 April 2012
THE PAST AS PRESENT
“The time for Sony to change is now.”
Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai, making an observation about the consumer-electronics giant that was as true a decade ago as it is now, The New York Times, 15 April 2012
I’M A GENIE IN A BOTTLE, YOU’VE GOT TO RUB ME THE RIGHT WAY
“I thought there was no way to put the genie back in the bottle, but now it seems in certain areas the genie has been put back in the bottle.”
Google cofounder Sergey Brin, explaining how Internet freedom can’t be won with wishes, The Guardian, 15 April 2012
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