Fred Wilson:"When you are doing a turnaround, the number one thing you need to do is get everyone’s confidence back. You need to get the employees’ confidence back, you need to get your customers’ confidence back, and you need to get your shareholders’ and your lenders’ confidence back."
Mike Harvey cites Fred Wilson:“If you are working on a web technology company, be happy that you aren’t working for a bank(.....)The tools and services that are made in the web technology business are only going to increase in demand over the next five years.”
Kevin Fiveash cites Steve Ballmer:"The last thing we want is for somebody else to obsolete us, if we’re gonna get obseleted [sic] we better do it to ourselves."
Nicholas Carr cites Alan Williams:"Will Microsoft adopt a true utility pricing model for virtual computers running Windows, allowing Amazon to roll the operating system licensing cost into its hourly fee, or will the Windows licenses have to continue to be purchased separately?"
Serdar Yegulalp interviews Jim Zemlin:""We've seen a real demand from our own people and other Linux users for smaller-scale events that allow direct interaction with key developers -- tech tutorials, case studies, talk between peers in the industry, you name it.""
Stephanie Condon cites Craig Newmark:""Regarding telecoms, the first thing to do is listen to your employees," he said. "I work with abuse handling departments, and they're all for Net neutrality.""
Ashlee Vance cites Kevin Cavanaugh:"“The other products aren’t actually encrypting the data on the devices,” said Kevin Cavanaugh, vice president of Lotus software at I.B.M. “I think we were concerned about the security aspect, and this turned out to be the best approach.”"
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Ashlee Vance cites Steve Ballmer:“Just as we have an operating system for the PC, for the phone, and for the server, we need a new operating system that runs in the Internet,”
Peter Whoriskey cites Craig Mundie:"For example, he predicts that the graphical user interfaces that all of us are accustomed to will one day be replaced by what he considers "natural user interfaces" -- that is, computers that we can talk to."
Neil Savage paraphrases Craig Mundie:"Mundie decries the fact that, by some measures, the U.S. ranks 14th in the world when it comes to rolling out broadband Internet service. He says Internet access in Tokyo is much faster, and much cheaper, than it is in Seattle."
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