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“It’s the same kind of energy [as the marriages at City Hall]. It’s nice to see that kind of energy return to San Francisco.”

San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, on how the new Apple Store in town will allow same-OS relationships to flourish, Wired News, 2 March 2004

“People love their pets, and we’ve made it really easy for them to make a Web page for their dogs and share it with other people.”

Dogster founder Ted Rheingold, on lowering barriers to entry that he really should have left in place, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 March 2004

“We had the buzz in the field in the late ’90s. And now we don’t really have the buzz in terms of the people coming into the field, the diversity of people coming into the field. And that’s a concern for us.”

Harvard dropout Bill Gates, speaking at his almost mater about why no one’s leaving school to join his firm anymore, Boston Globe, 27 February 2004

“Working the ICANN process is like being nibbled to death by a duck. It makes no sense, and in the end, you’re dead in the water.”

VeriSign executive Tom Galvin, on his company’s filing a lawsuit against Internet domain-name overseer ICANN so it doesn’t have to follow any pesky rules, Computerworld, 26 February 2004

“The idea that AOL is changing its advertising approach going forward in 2004 is false.”

America Online spokeswoman Ruth Sarfaty, committing her employer to another 10 months of inept advertising, CNNmoney, 23 February 2004