REVENGE OF THE STIFF

“I’m going to concentrate on making movies. In terms of being a corporate executive, I’m pretty much tired.”

George Lucas, revealing that all of those exhausting boardroom meetings were to blame for his recent movies, BBC News, 26 June 2005

PUPPIES AND RAINBOWS AND CLASSIFIED LISTINGS

“The big lesson for me on the Internet … is that people everywhere are overwhelmingly trustworthy and good and moral.”

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, on the beautiful color of the sky on the planet he lives on, CNN.com, 23 June 2005

LOW-PRESSURE SYSTEM

“I don’t necessarily believe we’re a great barometer of corporate spending.”

Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, on not reading his company’s soft sales as an economic portent, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 June 2005

THE REAL WORLD: WASHINGTON, D.C.

“Knowing we were right legally really still isn’t the same thing as being right in the real world.”

Former record-industry lobbyist Hilary Rosen, on the rich fantasy life of the music labels, Huffington Post, 27 June 2005

“SHARE” AND SHARE ALIKE

“We’re grabbing that word and saying … we own the word ‘share.'”

Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, not quite embracing his company’s new message, News.com, 24 June 2005