CONFIRMED BACHELOR

“Scott Thompson’s degree at Stonehill College was in bachelor science in accounting [sic]. There was an inadvertent error that stated Mr. Thompson also holds a degree in computer science.”

An unnamed Yahoo spokesperson, displaying the attention to detail that let false information about CEO Scott Thompson’s college degree get published in SEC filings in the first place, AllThingsD, 3 May 2012

BITE THE HAND THAT READS YOU

“The government should get out and shut down Tech City.”

British tech gadfly Milo Yiannopoulos, explaining that London’s startup district is so popular that nobody goes there anymore, International Business Times, 2 May 2012

CONVERSATION IS A LOST ARTIFICE

“We continue to talk to Google frequently and on an ongoing basis. They are a company that’s doing several different things right now. Those conversations have a complexity to them that is different than our conversations with the company.”

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, putting the “skate” in “obfuscate” while discussing his former employer, Business Insider, 1 May 2012

WHO YA GONNA CALL?

“Google totally slimed Sun.”

Java inventor James Gosling, on Google’s liberal use of the programming language for its Android operating system, Wired, 30 April 2012

THE SUBLIME AND THE RIDICULOUS

“We go to Twitter for breaking news, not Facebook. If it’s important, we’ll toss it onto Twitter right away. We go to Facebook only when it’s transcendent.”

Eric Carvin, the Associated Press’s social media editor, on the transcendent news-sharing power of the world’s biggest baby-photo repository, Digiday, 26 April 2012.