Closing out another year of “techagony,” we offer a few choice quotes gathered from many long hours covering various press events, interviews, trade shows, and technology conferences during the past year:
“My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.” (Vinod Khosla, FailCon 2011)
“Motherhood is a gateway to mobile addiction.” (Summer Schiavo, BabyCenter.com, delivering “Mobile Mom” report last May)
“If everything seems under control, you’re not moving fast enough.” (Andreas Neus, Global Innovation Forum, SRI)
“I’m trying to find warmth in the cow clicker shadow which has nearly buried me in cud.” (Ian Bogost, inventor of Cow Clicker, at the Game Developers Conference - GDC)
“Energy Star needs to be the floor, not the ceiling.” (Renee Blanchard, Greenpeace press conference, CES)
“I’m very tempted to call you ‘Giga’.” (Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital speaking to Om Malik, host of the GigaOM “Road Map” conference)
“Solyndra is not a slow young failure, it’s a big visible failure.” (Vinod Khosla, FailCon 2011)
“Games make us (expletive) better and that’s nothing to be ashamed of.” (audience member at the Game Developers Conference – GDC “rant” session)
“I’d keep it.” (response from panel at RSA Cybersecurity conference when asked what they would do if they found a card-skimming device in an ATM)
“Books are technology.” (Richard Nash, GigaOM Road Map)
“I’m hardpressed to think of a house of worship that should not have an intrusion protection system.” (Dan Keller, security executive, ISC West)
“At least Nintendo had the decency to tell you how you were going to get screwed.” (Trip Hawkins, founder of Electronic Arts, GDC Conference)
“A lot of people pay a lot of money to Walmart.” (Venky Harinarayan of Walmart, at GigaOM Road Map)
“Can someone just kill email?” (Jamie Rosand Haenggi, ISC West Conference)
“Twitter makes the world smaller.” (Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder, speaking about the Iran uprisings, at the GigaOM conference)
“We have to believe that 3D adds value.” (James Cameron, Hollywood movie director at NAB, Las Vegas)
“Scientists do not rest during recessions.” (Steve Johnson, Always On Going Green conference)
“We have to teach our kids that Wikipedia is not an authorized source for information about Cyrano de Bergerac.” (Bobbie Stempfey, Executive Women’s Forum, RSA Conference)
“There will always be a place for retail stores.” (Gilbert Fiorentino, CEO of Systemax, explaining why he firm bought defunct retailers CompUSA and Circuit City , at CES 2011)
“This is the most high maintenance and high performing workforce in the history of the world.” (Lisa Orrell, Global Innovation Forum, SRI)
“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” (Peter Thiel, technology entrepreneur and co-founder of PayPal)
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