DEEP THROAT WOULD HAVE LOVED WIKILEAKS

“The truth of what goes on is not on the Internet. [The Internet] can supplement. It can help advance. But the truth resides with people. Human sources.”

Legendary reporter Bob Woodward, ignoring the fact that people inhabit the Internet, Washington Post, 3 April 2012

GOOGLE AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO

“I have always believed that technology should do the hard work—discovery, organization, communication—so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers!”

Google CEO Larry Page—the same Larry Page who once stated his preference for messing with his PDA to looing at IAC CEO Barry Diller in a meeting—in a letter to investors posted on Google.com, 5 April 2012

A THERMONUCLEAR RELATIONSHIP

“I think the Android differences were actually for show. I had a relationship with Steve.”

Google CEO Larry Page, dismissing the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s threats of “thermonuclear war” over Google’s slavishly imitative iPhone knockoffs, BusinessWeek, 4 April 2012

BLOGGING IS SO NOT LAST MILLENNIUM

“Blogging didn’t really start until 2005.”

Yammer CEO David Sacks, getting his reverse chronological order all wrong, Business Insider, 25 November 2011

I’M ON THE RIGHT FARM, BABY, I WAS BORN THIS WAY

“Lady Gaga is passionate, 100 percent fan-focused, and a fashion icon. At Zynga we’re at least two of those things, three on a good day.”

Zynga executive Owen Van Natta, breaking his long-silent poker face to announce a partnership between the FarmVille operator and the ubiquitously networked singer, VentureBeat, 10 May 2011