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QOTD: Linux Creator Linus Torvalds on Sun

I’m not at all berating Sun. What I’m trying to do here is wake people up who seem to be living in some dream world where Sun wants to help people. Linux creator Linus Torvalds attempts to castigate...

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QOTD: CEO Daniel Laikin on National Lampoon's Online Strategy

Our Internet content strategy continues to flourish with hits such as ‘National Lampoon’s 72 Virgins,’ ‘Star Wars, X-Wing Pilots – the Deleted Scene’ and our newest property, ‘Fat Guy Nation.’ I am...

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QOTD: Scott Moschella On His Friend's Keyboard-in-the-Dishwasher Advice

He said it as if I should have known, and it’s something he had done before. He had never, never done it. But he had that authoritative voice as some geeks get, where you want to believe. Blogger Scott...

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QOTD: Fake Steve Jobs on Terry Semel's Resignation

Terry Semel at least can go back to Hollywood. I loved him in all those Christopher Guest movies. Fake Steve Jobs weighs in on Yahoo CEO Terry Semel’s resignation.

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QOTD: Newsweek's David Kaplan on Tom Perkin's Sailboat

If Darth Vader had an intergalactic yacht, this is what it would look like. Newsweek’s David Kaplan on Kleiner Perkins Founder Tom Perkins’s high-tech sailboat, the Maltese Falcon.

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QOTD: Slate's Jack Shafer Slags iPhone Mania

No drop of milk oozes from the Apple teat without a crowd of journalists gathering to swallow it up. Slate’s Jack Shafer deftly slags the media’s current iPhone mania.

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QOTD: Lulu.com CEO Bob Young Explains "Folksonomy"

‘Folksonomy’ is a word to make you howl in the night. Bob Young, CEO of Lulu.com, explains why “folksonomy” won this year’s Blooker Prize for the word most likely to make Web users “wince, shudder or...

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QOTD: Stephen Colbert on E-Mail Etiquette

What about ALL CAPS? People tell me to stop doing that, but I talk in ALL CAPS. Why wouldn’t I type in ALL CAPS, because it looks more like it’s chiseled in stone that way? Stephen Colbert chats about...

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QOTD: iPhone Fatigue

For the past four weeks, I’ve heard nothing but iPhone talk from David, his friends, my brother and, basically, any male between the ages of 13 and 40 within earshot. It’s insane. I’d pay 500 bucks and...

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“What hath God twat?” – Stephen Colbert speculates on the text of the very first Tweet.

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QOTD: PC Old Letter

“1984 LaserJet Classic Price: $3,495 Weight: 70 lbs. Maximum resolution: 300 dots per inch Speed: 8 pages per minute 2009 LaserJet P1006 Price: $99 Weight: 10 lbs. Maximum resolution: 1,200 dots per...

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“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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“I’m very disappointed for them in particular. As I understand, they have effectively no market share – so they essentially spoke against freedom of speech and human rights simply in order to...

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QOTD: Would You Like to Confirm "Syphilis" as Your Friend?

“Facebook is no more responsible for STD transmission than newspapers are responsible for bad vision.” – Facebook dismisses claims that it is linked to a rise in Syphilis

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Talking Schmidt: Google's CEO in His Own Words

Eric Schmidt once said Google’s “policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.” But during his soon-to-end tenure as CEO he happily high-stepped across that line like the grand...

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QOTD: Let Them Eat Facebook!

This provocative debate isn’t even being acknowledged in most American coverage of the Internet’s role in the current uprisings. The talking-head invocations of Twitter and Facebook instead take the...

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QOTD: Three's Company, Four's a Crowd

“I don’t think Verizon needs the Nokia and Microsoft relationship. Right now the three OS players we see for our network are Android, Apple, and RIM.” –Verizon Communications CTO Tony Melone

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“If we had bought Apple, there wouldn’t have been iPods or iPads … I’d have screwed that up.” – Former Sun CEO Scott McNealy on the company’s mid-90s effort to acquire Apple

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QOTD: Think $500 Per Share Is Too High for AAPL? Just Wait…

“They’ll be bigger than IBM next year, and they’ll be bigger than HP the year after that.” – Forrester Research CEO George Colony predicts Apple will soon be a $200 billion revenue company

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QOTD: And Another Similarity–Al Qaeda Doesn't Discuss Its Succession Plans...

“Al Qaeda Inc. might suffer some initial setbacks from Osama bin Laden’s death, but so did Apple Inc. when shares dropped over rumors of Steve Jobs’ illness. But it did not take long to realize that...

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