“I didn’t come here at this point in my career to manage a cynical enterprise whose sole purpose is to exploit the intricacies of AdSense to make a few bucks.”
Associated Content CEO Geoff Reiss, explaining the degree to which he intends to profit from gaming Google’s advertising system, News.com, 11 July 2007
“We will be investing that money in our business — in scaling our operations to accommodate our traffic and growth; in our product design and development efforts; and in our platform evangelism and support programs. Apart from those investments, we plan on staying as lean and focused as we possibly can.”
Ning cofounder Marc Andreessen, promising that he won’t spend his investors’ $44 million on foosball tables and Aeron chairs this time, blog.pmarca.com, 9 July 2007
“In the past few months, we have been having to make Xbox 360 console repairs at a rate too high for our liking.”
Robbie Bach, head of Microsoft’s Xbox business, on taking a $1 billion-plus charge in order to learn that making hardware is actually kind of tricky, ABC News, 5 July 2007
“Rarely does Valleywag draw us out of our hole, but this one was so off.”
Google spokesman David Krane, caught red-handed responding to rumors and speculation, CNBC.com, 5 July 2007
“Today’s run of the Storm Trojan using the Fourth of July as its hook continues this theme of exploiting current events to entice unsuspecting email users into infecting themselves.”
Bradley Anstis, director of product management at IT security firm Marshal, on the explosion of spam over holidays, M-net, 4 July 2007
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