“People were not signing up for AOL or canceling it because of news and sports and search.”
America Online vice chairman Ted Leonsis, rediscovering for what has to be the tenth time that subscribers don’t care about content, The New York Times, 22 November 2004
“The Internet is a perfect drug delivery system because you are anonymous, aroused and have role models for these behavior.”
Mary Anne Layden, co-director of a sexual trauma program at the University of Pennsylvania, on the dangers of Internet porn, Wired News, 19 November 2004
“Bill literally receives 4 million pieces of email per day, most of it spam.”
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, trying but failing to engender some sympathy for his boss, Hindustan times, 18 November 2004
“The MP3 war has started, and I am the one who has declared war.”
Creative Technology CEO Sim Wong Hoo, on the Singapore-based electronics firm’s plans to take on the iPod, News.com, 17 November 2004
“We’ll be as competitive as the market forces us to be.”
SBC executive Scott Helbing, explaining the company’s customer-apathetic philosophy, USA Today, 16 November 2004
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