Jerry Weinberger: Ignorant people don't think of the evils they endure, while the Americans dream constantly of the goods they do not have.
Ray Ozzie: Those who can envision a plausible future that's brighter than today will earn the opportunity to lead.
Steve Jobs: I just couldn't help dropping by.
Ozzie: In our industry, if you can imagine something, you can build it. Certain of our competitors' products and their rapid advancement & refinement of new usage scenarios have been quite noteworthy. Our early and clear vision notwithstanding, their execution has surpassed our own in mobile experiences, in the seamless fusion of hardware & software & services, and in social networking & myriad new forms of internet-centric social interaction.
Eric Schmidt: You get a billion people doing something, there's lots of ways to make money. Absolutely, trust me. We'll get lots of money for it.
Michael Osinski: When you're close to the money, you get the first cut. Oyster farmers eat lots of oysters, don't they?
Jobs: We don't aspire to be like them. They're good at being like them. We want to be like us. I don't see them catching up with us in the foreseeable future.
Jeff Bezos's grandfather: One day you'll understand that it's harder to be kind than clever.
Steve Jobs: You're looking at it wrong.
An exchange: Interviewee: We had a master sergeant that could stop the heart of a goat. Jon Ronson: What? Just by looking at it? Interviewee: Just by wantin' the goat's heart to stop.
Glen Owen and Rhodri Phillips: Sony has sparked a major row over animal cruelty and the ethics of the computer industry by using a freshly slaughtered goat to promote a violent video game.
Thakis: I expected Google Chrome to teleport maybe three, maximum five goats! What happens instead? About 3*10^6 goats get teleported! I won't be able to pay for teleportation of such a huge amount of goats!
Josh Harris: Everything is free, except the video that we capture of you. That we own.
Decius: Money for me, databases for you.
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