“Even though the vast majority of people have never heard of Steve or myself, we’re more influential than John Lennon or Bob Dylan ever were.”
Dave Winer, declaring himself and fellow blogger Steve Gillmor bigger than Jesus, Wired News, 8 June 2005
FEAR, UNCERTAINTY, AND TOUT
“I don’t think we should have expectations that we will have people lined up at midnight to buy a copy, necessarily, despite the fact that Longhorn is a huge deal.”
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, managing expectations down for his company’s next big product, News.com, 7 June 2005
ANOTHER DIVORCE DUE TO INCOMPATIBILITY
“Mac OS X has been leading a secret double life.”
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, on his company’s flirtations with Intel behind IBM’s back, PCWorld.com, 6 June 2005
STOP, COLLABORATE, AND LISTEN
“Podcasting is the largest self-service anthropology project under way.”
Filmmaker Jason Scott, on wasting 340 gigabytes of perfectly good hard drive space on an archive of people too stupid to figure out how to type their thoughts, Wired News, 2 June 2005
SUING OUR CUSTOMERS IS SO OVER; NOW WE’RE JUST GOING TO PISS THEM OFF
“The casual piracy, the schoolyard piracy, is a huge issue for us.”
Sony BMG executive Thomas Hesse, on the music company’s new plan to install digital rights management on its CDs, News.com, 31 May 2005
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