“I hope I can sleep with it Saturday night. It feels gorgeous.”
Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr, taking Apple gadget lust to its logical yet absurd conclusion, VentureBeat, 31 March 2010
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IT’S NOT AN IPAD, IT’S A MATTRESS PAD
March 31, 2010THE INTERNET IS FOR FLAMING
March 3, 2010“They make the blog about themselves, filling it with posts announcing new hires, touting new products, and sharing pictures from the company picnic. That’s lovely, darling — I’m sure your mom cares.”
Fog Creek Software CEO and reformed blogger Joel Spolsky, making sure to remind everyone he’s gay in the process of decrying bloggers who share too much personal information, Inc., 1 March 2010
WRITE A NOVEL ALREADY, WHY DON’T YOU?
March 2, 2010“After the events of the past several weeks, I have been in touch with many of you. It has become clear to me that there is far too little accurate information available in this time of unprecedented change. The issues we all face together are complex, and no news story or 140-character snippet can adequately address them. Therefore, I propose to write you occasionally, when I get a sense that there is a need for direct information.”
Macmillan CEO John Sargent, on taking to the blogosphere to press his case for more expensive e-books, Macmillan.com, 2 March 2010
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BING
March 2, 2010“The biggest opportunity is really to help people get done what they need to get done. I mean, it’s a marketing campaign, but it’s really true.”
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, on Bing’s destiny as a sort of Web-based Clippy, Seattlepi.com, 2 March 2010
AND THAT’S JUST THE PARTIES
March 1, 2010“We’ll be the first to admit that, by conventional standards, Yelp can seem weird.”
Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, referring obliquely to the freakazoid culture of obsessive business reviewers on his site, Official Yelp Blog, 1 March 2010
