“Hopefully, we won’t repeat the mistakes that Microsoft made 10 years ago that ultimately led to all these things that happened to them.”
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“I don’t understand how Apple could ruin the record business in one year on Mac.”
“The game looks to be a throw-back to the classic Space Invaders/Galaga style of games from the early 1980s. However, what brings this game into the realm of malicious code is that for every alien ship you destroy, the game deletes a file from your home directory.”
QOTD: Cloudy With a Chance of Workforce Rebalancing 
“We were able to eliminate a whole bunch of actually U.S.-based jobs and kind of replace them with two folks out of India to serve a 1,200-person engineering organization.”
– Richard Marcello, president of technology, consulting, and integration solutions at Unisys
“The Wii has stalled.”
“I wish you could be cloned because so many of the companies in the country could use a Carol Bartz as CEO. My resignation in a way is a compliment to you in that I do not believe that Yahoo any longer needs an activist shareholder.”
– Excerpt from activist investor Carl Icahn’s gushing farewell letter to Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz
“I’m hoping we can get the newsroom more actively involved in the challenge of delivering our best journalism in the form of Times Reader, iPhone apps, WAP, or the impending Apple slate or whatever comes after that.”
– Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times, stokes the Apple rumor mill.
“We’re eagerly awaiting Apple’s Tablet and the answer to the question of whether there really is a very large market for stand-alone eReaders. We think there is…we see people carrying around stand-alone Readers all the time…they’re called books.”
– Mark Mahaney, Citi Investment Research
“I did not try to buy Twitter.”
“If Oracle is allowed to acquire MySQL, it will predictably limit the development of the functionality and performance of the MySQL software platform, leading to profound harm to those who use MySQL software to power applications.”
– Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman urges the European Commission to block Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun.
“What’s the old movie line from ‘Annie Hall’? Relationships are like sharks; they move forward, or they die. Well, technology companies either move forward, too, or they die. They become less relevant.”
“Others have questioned the impact of the agreement on competition, or asserted that it would limit consumer choice with respect to out-of-print books. In reality, nothing in this agreement precludes any other company or organization from pursuing their own similar effort. The agreement limits consumer choice in out-of-print books about as much as it limits consumer choice in unicorns. Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice–fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.”
— Google co-founder Sergey Brin defends the company’s book-scanning efforts.
“Free is not a business model. We are a commercial company, we will look to gain revenue and profit from our activities. You’ll have to ask our competitors if they’ll make money on free things.”
“This is a company with very little revenue. [YouTube was] growing quickly with user adoption, growing much faster than Google Video, which was the product that Google had. And they had indicated to us that they would be sold, and we believed that there would be a competing offer–because of who Google was–paying much more than they were worth….We ultimately concluded that $1.65 billion included a premium for moving quickly and making sure that we could participate in the user success in YouTube.”
– In a May deposition, Google CEO Eric Schmidt explains why Google paid a $1 billion premium for YouTube.
“I cannot show that off yet. You’re not even supposed to know about that….Nobody knows about that.”
– Digg founder Kevin Rose gets caught messing around with an unannounced Digg iPhone app.
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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.
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- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
- A Spectacular Cover of “Let It Be”
Spectacular in the bellowing Russian sailor sense of the word …
- Protect Insurance Companies PSA
“If you spell something wrong on your insurance claim, do you really deserve surgery? I don’t think so …”
