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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. ESR such a dolt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    OK, mod this down... Eric Raymond is the biggest f*cking prick I've ever met. Microsoft's worst nightmare? I doubt Bill Gates is sitting at home having nightmares about the arrogant gasbag that is ESR. I met him a couple times so far. Each time he was condescending and rude. Against my better judgment I asked him to autograph a program guide. The fucker actually sneered at me and huffed. Contrast this to maddog hall or Wozniak or Linus (all of whom were absolutely pleasant and smiling). Shoot, even Richard Stallman who I'd thought would be an ass from all the stories I've heard was a nice guy, though really weird (and driven, and someone I'm glad fights for what he believes). But ESR, put a cork in him please.

  2. A contender from Sony by From+A+Far+Away+Land · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Mr. THOMAS HESSE (President, Sony BMG Global Digital Business): Most people, I think, don't even know what a Rootkit is, so why should they care about it?

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    Oh You POS
  3. The Real Jem; by DNAspark99 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "What were you going to do with the rest of your afternoon, offer jobs to Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds? Or were you going to stick to something easier, like talking Pope Benedict into presiding at a Satanist orgy?"
      -- Eric Raymond, one of the prime movers in the open-source movement, who also describes himself as "Microsoft's worst nightmare" after he received an e-mail pitch from Microsoft asking if he was interested in a job. (Sept. 9.)

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    Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am.
  4. This one has it all - sony, the queen, arrows, jam by skeptictank · · Score: 3, Interesting
    "A company as big as this one ... has to organize its priorities. In the U.K. we call it the law of raspberry jam: the wider the culture is spread, the thinner it is spread." -- Howard Stringer, as he became Sony (Profile, Products, Articles) CEO. He also talked about having tea with the queen and her complaint that Sony remote controls have "too many arrows." (June 23.)

    A female monarch older than most of the countries on the planet complaining about the remotes made by the first company to deploy rootkits in commercial products - that pretty much sums up the current state of humanity.