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“It is highly likely that Real’s Harmony technology will cease to work with current and future iPods.”

Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris, on her employer’s hacking back at online-music rival RealNetworks, Seattle Post- Intelligencer, 15 December 2004

“The magazine didn’t have the elegant seriousness we intend.”

Technology Review editor Jason Pontin, whose previous employer, Red Herring, once featured Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on its cover in a wedding dress, The New York Times, 13 December 2004

“It’s not so much differentiating that’s important, as getting the word out to people who are outside San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles that social networking exists.”

Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams, on the success his site has had at replicating its users’ narrow social circles, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 December 2004

“Google will never replace me.”

Michele Hampshire, a librarian in Mill Valley, California, on the future of her profession, The New York Times, 9 December 2004

“Understand that computing is not a commodity and really see that there is value to be added.”

Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, who apparently thinks that by closing his eyes and whispering, “I do believe in Solaris,” he can make his server business live, ComputerWeekly, 9 December 2004