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HE’S EMINENTLY QUALIFIED TO BE ORACLE’S PRESIDENT

owenthomas — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:22:49 +0000

“The HP board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago.”

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, criticizing the decision by Hewlett-Packard’s board to request CEO Mark Hurd’s resignation following an expense-account scandal involving a softcore porn actress, New York Times, 8 August 2010

ONCE YOU’RE LUCKY, TWICE YOU’RE A SHILL

owenthomas — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:08:33 +0000

“FWIW, in case anyone is wondering why I didn’t ask Elon about his divorce, it’s because I’m a business reporter.”

Volunteer Tesla Motors publicist Sarah Lacy, explaining why she didn’t ask electric-vehicles investor Elon Musk any potentially troubling questions about a divorce trial which threatens his stake in the company, Twitter, 5 August 2010

“Nothing Max Levchin ever does seems to be easy. In the fall of 2007, Max finally decided to propose to his long-time girlfriend Nellie.”

Non-business reporter Sarah Lacy, delving into her subject’s personal lives, Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good, Gotham, 2008

A MAN OUT OF TIME

owenthomas — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:33:27 +0000

“I wonder if people went through the same thing in the mid-1400s as they sat in coffee shops with their pesky paper books?”

New York Times blogger Nick Bilton, demonstrating the untoward effects of depriving a computing-device addict of his fix — in this example, causing him to misplace the origin of European coffee shops by two centuries, Bits, 2 August 2010

NO PLAN, NO POLICY, NO PROBLEM

owenthomas — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 05:23:55 +0000

“The 21st century is a really terrible time to be a control freak.”

Internet-enabled State Department functionary Jared Cohen, arguing for the abolition of his role as a policy planner, New York Times, 18 July 2010

ZERO OMISSION VEHICLE?

owenthomas — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:43:40 +0000

“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!

owenthomas — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:20:22 +0000

“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

owenthomas — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:05:48 +0000

“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

owenthomas — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:12:29 +0000

“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

owenthomas — Thu, 27 May 2010 06:22:39 +0000

“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

CHAIRMAN OF THE BORED

owenthomas — Wed, 26 May 2010 04:53:44 +0000

“In response to the curiosity, no chairs were thrown, no ultimatums served, I am not moving to Cupertino or Mountain View, I did not take a courier job and I require no assistance finding the door.”

Microsoft entertainment and devices executive J Allard, finally devising to do something genuinely entertaining in the course of exiting his job, ZDNet, 25 May 2010