“The last thing we would do is take it out of the hide of our employees. That is a path to a downward spiral.”
Google executive Shona Brown, on providing lifetime employment for the Google chef even if the company’s growth slows, The New York Times, 5 December 2005
“There’s no reason we should penalize Apple customers for Steve’s pigheadedness.”
RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser, on offering Mac users a token Web version of his company’s Rhapsody music store despite Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ continued refusal to answer his email, News.com, 5 December 2005
“After about 20 minutes of trying to figure out the interface of the editing system I became exasperated and gave up.”
Former MTV veejay Adam Curry, claiming technical ineptitude as the reason he edited out references to other inventors in a history of podcasting, Curry.com, 2 December 2005
“We live in a universe of new media with phenomenal opportunities for worldwide communications and research — but populated by volunteer vandals with poison-pen intellects.”
Retired journalist John Seigenthaler, complaining about a Wikipedia entry that sugggested he assassinated President Kennedy, 29 November 2005
“Free is the lowest barrier to entry for acquiring a product.”
Sun Microsystems president Jonathan Schwartz, on realizing he doesn’t want to be a miser, or, for that matter, keep it like the Kaiser, 30 November 2005
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