Category: Quote

ONCE YOU’RE LUCKY, TWICE YOU’RE A SHILL

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“FWIW, in case anyone is wondering why I didn’t ask Elon about his divorce, it’s because I’m a business reporter.”

Volunteer Tesla Motors publicist Sarah Lacy, explaining why she didn’t ask electric-vehicles investor Elon Musk any potentially troubling questions about a divorce trial which threatens his stake in the company, Twitter, 5 August 2010

“Nothing Max Levchin ever does seems to be easy. In the fall of 2007, Max finally decided to propose to his long-time girlfriend Nellie.”

Non-business reporter Sarah Lacy, delving into her subject’s personal lives, Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good, Gotham, 2008

A MAN OUT OF TIME

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“I wonder if people went through the same thing in the mid-1400s as they sat in coffee shops with their pesky paper books?”

New York Times blogger Nick Bilton, demonstrating the untoward effects of depriving a computing-device addict of his fix — in this example, causing him to misplace the origin of European coffee shops by two centuries, Bits, 2 August 2010

NO PLAN, NO POLICY, NO PROBLEM

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“The 21st century is a really terrible time to be a control freak.”

Internet-enabled State Department functionary Jared Cohen, arguing for the abolition of his role as a policy planner, New York Times, 18 July 2010

ZERO OMISSION VEHICLE?

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“Lying by omission is still lying.”

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, offering a detailed explanation of his public-relations strategy, TechCrunch, 11 July 2010

FIRST!

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“We had been working on Android a very long time, with the notion of producing phones that are Internet enabled and have good browsers and all that because that did not exist in the marketplace. I think that characterization of us entering after is not really reasonable.”

Google cofounder Larry Page, longwindedly disputing Apple’s claim that Google’s Android army was a response to the iPhone, Reuters, 9 July 2010