ATOMS ARE OFFICIALLY COOL AGAIN

“Zazzle is a way to take all those unique, individual, and custom expressions of self and realize them in expressions generally of things, be they apparel, or posters, or stamps.”

Venture capitalist John Doerr, on why he and other investors put down $16 million for a piece of a T-shirt printing operation, BusinessWeek Online, 21 July 2005

MY OPERATING SYSTEM IS RUBBER AND YOUR’S GLUE

“The trouble begins when you want to add things to it, add some services and things like that. Because of the brittle nature of the platform, when you do that, other things break.”

Microsoft executive Martin Taylor, getting Linux and Windows mixed up again, News.com, 20 July 2005

WE NOW RETURN TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED NAVELGAZING

“If the mainstream media disappeared what would bloggers have left to write about?”

Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker, on the all-cat-pictures- all-the-time future of media, Niall Kennedy’s Weblog, 18 July 2005

http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2005/07/newsweek_and_ti.html

SO WE’RE SETTLING FOR AN EXCLUSIVE LICENSE

“Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas.”

Yahoo executive Usama Fayyad, on opening a new research lab near the University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 July 2005