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The 2005 IT Year In Quotes

Posted by Zonk on from the i-am-not-a-crook dept.

PCM2 writes "InfoWorld is carrying a news story that sums up the year in quotes from IT executives. Lots of fun stuff to be had here, including former WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers: 'I know what I don't know, and to this day I don't know technology and I don't know accounting and finance.' Also: 'We have so many rivals it's frightening. The week after next I will meet Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and I will [shake hands and]look down and see if I still have a hand.' - Sony's Stringer"

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  1. They forgot a few by Psionicist · · Score: 1, Informative

    They forgot a few important ones:

    "I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google." -- Steve Jobs

    "Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?" -- Thomas Hesse, Sony

    1. Re:They forgot a few by ZachPruckowski · · Score: 4, Informative

      "I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google." -- Steve Jobs

      Um, wasn't that Steve Ballmer? I mean, there's a bit of a difference.

  2. It's good to be underestimated -- BillG by heytal · · Score: 2, Informative

    This one is from Bill's India Visit, which he concluded yesterday:

    Do you see any threat to Microsoft from companies like Yahoo! and Google which have entered the software market?

    The software space always has new companies coming into the domain and for the first time people seem to underestimate Microsoft. It is healthy competition and it is good to be underestimated once in a while.

    Full Interview Here

  3. Re:This one has it all - sony, the queen, arrows, by Profound · · Score: 2, Informative

    I ran a perl script over the CIA world factbook, looking for Independence > 1926 and got:

    total: 273, younger than queen: 132 = 48.3%

    So yeah, you're probably pretty close (depending on how one counts countries, and ages etc)

  4. Re:Rare to get such honesty these days. by Skater · · Score: 3, Informative

    How do you know he didn't? This could be, and likely is, a quote to a journalist, not to the board.