“The temporary nature of the FlashMob ad hoc supercomputing is that you can put it together whenever you need one.”
University of San Francisco lecturer Pat Miller, whose slapped- together cluster failed to hit the top-500 supercomputer list, Wired News, 5 April 2004
“Maybe we’ve grown up, maybe they’ve grown up, or maybe the customers are driving this.”
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, on a $2 billion agreement to make kissy-face with Sun Microsystems, eWeek, 1 April 2004
“Organizing all the world’s information is our mission in life, and part of that information is each individual’s information.”
Google engineering VP Wayne Rosing, explaining why the search engine wants a peek at your inbox, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 April 2004
“The number of security exploits will never reach zero. But we can dramatically blunt the impact of cybercriminals and are dedicating a major portion of our R&D investments to security advances.”
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, telling customers to expect nothing but bug fixes for the next three years, InformationWeek, 31 March 2004
“We’ve created, if not the largest, one of the largest hot spots in the world.”
San Francisco Giants chief operating officer Larry Baer, providing another reason for fans to ignore the action on the field by installing Wi-Fi, News.com, 30 March 2004
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