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“The goal remains for us to separate spammers from their money.”

Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith, on the company’s policy of treating spammers just like the rest of its customers, Wired News, 9 August 2005

“Why did we stick with Linux? … It was because we could keep on doing exactly what we wanted.”

Google open-source program manager Chris DiBona, on the search engine’s discovery of yet another way to ignore the outside world, Computerworld, 10 August 2005

“This isn’t some pie-in-the-sky enterprise software contraption.”

Splunk CEO Michael Baum, on the log-analysis startup’s misplaced ambitions to sell software to the people who use it, News.com, 8 August 2005

“You can put us down for a ‘no comment.'”

Google nonspokesman David Krane, summarizing his employer’s PR strategy, The New York Times, 8 August 2005

“The effect of Disney and Pixar guessing wrong on this was actually not giant.”

Part-time Pixar CEO Steve Jobs, on flubbed DVD sales estimates that resulted in a a 66 percent drop in earnings, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 August 2005