ZERO OMISSION VEHICLE?

“Lying by omission is still lying.”

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, offering a detailed explanation of his public-relations strategy, TechCrunch, 11 July 2010

FIRST!

“We had been working on Android a very long time, with the notion of producing phones that are Internet enabled and have good browsers and all that because that did not exist in the marketplace. I think that characterization of us entering after is not really reasonable.”

Google cofounder Larry Page, longwindedly disputing Apple’s claim that Google’s Android army was a response to the iPhone, Reuters, 9 July 2010

WE BOUGHT IT TO BE IN THE RANDOMLY SPENDING SHAREHOLDERS’ MONEY BUSINESS

“We didn’t buy Palm to be in the smartphone business.”

Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, on why HP spent $1.2 billion on a smartphone company, ZDNet, 2 June 2010

MAYBE NO ONE’S READY FOR THEIR CLOSEUP, MR. ZUCKERBERG

“I just wished that nobody made a movie of me while I was still alive.”

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, suddenly discovering empathy for users who don’t like arbitrary privacy-altering decisions made for them, either, CNET News, 2 June 2010

SHARING IS SCARING

“When we started Facebook, we built it around a few simple ideas. People want to share and stay connected with their friends and the people around them.”

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, rewriting the history of his Big Brother website in the best traditions of Orwell, Facebook Blog, 26 May 2010