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“We’re in a digital age now and that requires software.”

Apple hardware executive Greg Joswiak, on the dimishing value of his job, Reuters, 23 February 2005

“Paris feels badly that this happened and she feels badly that other people have been inconvenienced.”

Paris Hilton publicist Gina Hoffman, on the posting of the contents of her inexplicably famous client’s cell-phone address book on the Internet, Reuters, 22 February 2005

“Creative is a hidden gem, like Cinderella. There’s a lot of inner beauty, a lot of inner strength out there, but not a lot of people know it. In the long run, Creative can become the princess in this area.”

Creative Technologies CEO Sim Wong Hoo, on waiting for consumers to notice his company, Newsweek, 21 February 2005

“As Napster’s CTO, I would like to officially state that neither Napster To Go, Napster, nor Windows Media DRM have been hacked.”

Napster chief technology officer Bill Pence, on learning of a trivial workaround that defeats the music service’s copy protection, TechWeb News, 16 February 2005

“The key reason for getting into the Linux business in the first place was figuring out what to do with the decline of NetWare.”

Novell CEO Jack Messman, on why he hitched his terminally boring company to the open-source movement, News.com, 16 February 2005