GRAY GOO IS GOOD FOR YOU

“This is good news for the nanotechnology community because it shows that with some very simple chemistry the toxicity of these particles can be turned off.”

Rice nanotechnology-lab director Kristen Kulinowski, on making buckyballs safe for human consumption, Houston Chronicle, 24 September 2004

TAKE A PICTURE, IT’LL LAST LONGER

“Our digital portfolio is gaining wider acceptance in commercial and consumer markets.”

Kodak CEO Dan Carp, putting the best face on his company’s disappearing conventional film business that will lead to 12,000 or more layoffs over the next three years, San Jose Mercury News, 22 September 2004

DO YOU, UH, NOT YAHOO?

“It was incredibly difficult to recruit participants for this study, as people weren’t willing to be without the Internet for two weeks.”

Yahoo chief sales officer Wenda Harris Millard, on commissioning a study of Internet deprivation, Silicon Valley Business Journal, 20 September 2004

BROWSER WARS ARE SO LAST MILLENNIUM

“I think we’re setting new records here in terms of new browser downloads, and it shows that people are ready for an alternative.”

Mozilla spokesman Bart Decrem, on the open-source nonprofit’s amazing discovery that, just like Netscape ten years ago, it can give software away, News.com, 20 September 2004