“Let the free markets decide which company is best. We want lots of companies with lots of great ideas competing with a Darwinian pressure.”

Federal CIO Vivek Kundra, whose previous experience with free markets featured an episode of youthful indiscretion where he made off with shirts from JCPenney without paying, on his plans to spend $79 billion as chaotically as possible, BusinessWeek, 11 March 2010

“It’s where the intersection between digital and physical starts to get interesting. Starbucks loves that, because we’re always looking for that intersection, which we think is the evolution of social networks.”

Starbucks executive Chris Bruzzo, frothing more than just lattes as he tries to pretend he’s not in the fast-food business, Bits, 11 March 2010

“Facebook used to be who your friends are, now it’s everyone.”

Cryptokleptomaniac Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley, explaining why his friend-finding service won’t be crushed by Facebook, Business Insider, 10 March 2010

“Dual revenue streams got lost in the early days of the Internet.”

News Corp. digital media pooh-bah Jonathan Miller, previously best known for managing dual advertising and subscription revenue streams at AOL, on setting up walled gardens for old media to convalesce in,  PaidContent, 10 March 2010

“Here’s something I could never say as Sun’s CEO.  I prefer SmugMug.”

Ponytailed funemployment expert and former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, on holding a grudge over a $100 million patent settlement with Kodak, What I Couldn’t Say, 9 March 2010

“Newspapers could save a lot of money if the primary access to news was via the Internet.”

Google chief economist Hal Varian, on how print media can shrink itself into some kind of dystopic media future, TechCrunch, 9 March 2010

“It is a battle not just of mind but of heart as well. We are wanting to make an emotional connection – we are ploughing a different furrow here.”

Unbearably British Microsoft executive Ashley Highfield, on his company’s plans to lose even more money with a marketing campaign for its Bing search engine, Guardian.co.uk, 8 March 2010

“February was a month of big milestones for us, possibly the most exciting of which was that you guys viewed Tumblr more than a BILLION times. That’s 36 million times a day, 25,000 times a minute, and more than 400 times a second!”

Tumblr CEO and professional adorablogger David Karp, on the amazing discovery that reinventing GeoCities and LiveJournal with a slightly more emo design can pay off, Tumblr Staff Blog, 8 March 2010

“What do news organizations need to do to survive? Will books become extinct? When will an audience pay for content? Can video bring television and the internet together? Will the iPad save us all? Keeping up with these changes is time-consuming, as essential media coverage is scattered across numerous web sites at any given moment.”

Mediagazer editrix Megan McCarthy, on how her Techmeme-powered industry-news site might save journalism by allowing reporters to spend less time tracking their employers’ fortunes and more time actually doing their jobs, Mediagazer News, 8 March 2010

“We were in a pretty deep dark hole for a long time. But now it’s a pretty out-of-body experience.”

Pandora founder Tim Westergren, doing his best to scare away the investment bankers who might be interested in his Internet-music startup, New York Times, 8 March 2010