“What has been frustrating is real business issues being reduced to personal issues, and it will get worse.”
PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway, steeling himself for Oracle’s attempts to turn him into the Willie Horton of shareholder rights, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 February 2004
“I think productivity has also improved because people have outsourced business processes and focused a lot more on the things people focus on in recessionary times.”
Part-time venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, on how companies have boosted profits while slashing headcount, News.com, 23 February 2004
“Watching television should be one of the most relaxing experiences you can have. It’s astounding that something this simple has to be encoded in a made-up language that only an electronics engineer could love.”
Design consultant Jakob Nielsen, on how intellectually exhausting he finds pushing buttons on his remote controls, The New York Times, 19 February 2004
“There will be a lot of borrowing of ideas.”
Intel chief technology officer Pat Gelsinger, on how after the Itanium chip, he’s pretty much given up on his company’s own engineers, News.com, 19 February 2004
“We are extremely confident our index size is highly competitive.”
Yahoo executive Jeff Weiner, on locker-room comparisons in the Web search market, Searchblog, 17 February 2004
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