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“When I saw photos of Mexicans climbing the fence to get into the U.S. and buy iPhones over the weekend, well, I’ll be honest, I cried.”

Fake Steve Jobs, on the reaction to the iPhone, News.com, 3 July 2007

HOW TO MAKE AN ASSET OF YOURSELF

“I have the credibility for knowing how to create great assets and what’s going to be the next big thing.”

Brad Greenspan, the self-proclaimed founder of MySpace, on slavishly copying Rupert Murdoch in a bid for Dow Jones, The New York Times, 2 July 2007

THE REGULATOR-READY BUSINESS

“The regulators still win. That’s just the rule. All the more reason you want to be cooperative and make the government think they won.”

Microsoft lawyer Marshall Phelps, on how his company learned to roll over and play dead ever so convincingly, News.com, 28 June 2007

FIRST YOU GET THE MONEY, THEN YOU GET THE POSERS

“I really like the Valley now because they’re more fundamentally focused on making money than hype.”

Seagate CEO Bill Watkins, who clearly hasn’t wandered outside a hard-drive factory for a couple of years, The New York Times, 27 June 2007