I’M ON THE RIGHT FARM, BABY, I WAS BORN THIS WAY

“Lady Gaga is passionate, 100 percent fan-focused, and a fashion icon. At Zynga we’re at least two of those things, three on a good day.”

Zynga executive Owen Van Natta, breaking his long-silent poker face to announce a partnership between the FarmVille operator and the ubiquitously networked singer, VentureBeat, 10 May 2011

I’M SORRY, YOUR FARM HAS BEEN DISCONNECTED

“In five years, Facebook is world’s social dial tone, Amazon is your shopping dial tone, we will be your social games dial tone.”

Zynga CEO Mark Pincus, on how players of its popular social games like FarmVille should really think of its constant out-of-sync errors as the 21st-century equivalent of fast busy signals, Twitter, 21 October 2010