"Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party."

Robin Williams - 2002 HBO Special

"Dear Aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all."

Microsoft Voice Recognition Snafu - 2006

"The corporate graveyard is studded with the tombstones of once domineering companies that died slow deaths through self-inflicted wounds."

Charles Haddad - BusinessWeek Online, during an admonition to Microsoft August 2002

"What I love about this iTunes Music Store idea is that there is a concern for artists, a concern for protection, a concern for evolution, a concern for people getting music right away, so everyone is being taken into account and no one is being left behind and that's the ultimate convergence of technological evolution and spiritual consideration and that's what I'm all about and that's why I get excited."

Alanis Morissette on the iPod

"Technology, we kind of equate that with science, it doesn't have to be cold and ugly it can be something beautiful, and magnificent and wondrous."

Wynton Marsalis on the iPod

Microsoft headquarters being taken over by iPods February 2 - 13:15 EST Wired's Leander Kahney reports that even Microsoft's corporate campus in Redmond, Washington, is not immune to iPod fever. "To the growing frustration and annoyance of Microsoft's management, Apple's iPod is wildly popular among Microsoft's workers. 'About 80 percent of Microsoft employees who have a portable music player have an iPod,' said one source, a high-level manager who asked to remain anonymous. 'It's pretty staggering.' The source estimated 80 percent of Microsoft employees have a music player--that translates to 16,000 iPod users among the 25,000 who work at or near Microsoft's corporate campus. 'This irks the management team no end,' said the source. So popular is the iPod, executives are increasingly sending out memos frowning on its use."

"Apple is like a ship with a hole in the bottom and my job is to get the ship pointed in the right direction."

Gil Amelio Former CEO of Apple Computer

"What is your 'magical in-hand date'?" Meaning... what date in the last two weeks do you need this?)

Megan Shackelford Inside Sales, Rose Brand

"We're all looking for something but no one wants to be sold anything"

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"The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and premium upon ignorance, stupidity, and perjury. Its a shame that we must continue to use a worthless system because it was good a thousand years ago."

Mark Twain - "Roughing it" - July 2009