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“We can’t just sell products anymore. We have to sell both products and vision.”

BEA Systems CEO Alfred Chuang, on what his customers get for their money, News.com, 28 May 2004

“The addictive part is not so much extreme narcissism. It’s that you’re involved in a conversation. You have a connection to people through the blog.”

Advance.net president Jeff Jarvis, on what drives people to blog, The New York Times, 27 May 2004

“We’re the biggest spammer on the Internet.”

Comcast engineer Sean Lutner, on the broadband provider’s susceptibility to takeovers of subscribers’ PCs by malicious emailers, News.com, 24 May 2004

“This will be first law in the nation to ensure that this type of technology is never used to create files on consumers.”

California state senator Liz Figueroa (D.-Logitech), on her quixotic campaign to forbid Google from providing free email, News.com, 25 May 2004

“Some of you may have heard of this crazy company called SCO (aka ‘Smoking Crack Organization’) who seem to have a hard time believing that open source works better than their five engineers do.”

Linus Torvalds, explaining who’s to blame for the new paperwork Linux developers have to fill out when they contribute code to the open-source operating system, Wired News, 24 May 2004