"I've visited a whole lot of government organizations. Virtually every government agency I've visited has Linux somewhere in the enterprise...The question is: Does anyone know about it? ... I suspect at least half of those who say they don't use it have it in their enterprise but don't know about it." - Robert Hibbard of Red Hat
"I spend just about zero percent of my time worrying about Linux versus Microsoft. I spend all my time worrying about how to make Linux better and what customers need. I don't keep a checklist of what Microsoft has and Linux does not. That might sound like the canned corporate answer, but it happens to be true." - Dan Frye, IBM
"In terms of growing the company...It would be difficult if LInux wee to become a phenomenon on the desktop" - John Connors, Microsoft CFO
"Look how far we've come in the past 10 years. Extrapolate how far we can go in a few years. We'll beat the pants off of Microsoft in TCO given enough time." - Bruce Perens
What's the most dynamic segment of the computer industry? Open Source!
Holy shit - Open Source is only a conversation! Is software that no one buys even part of the computer industry? If you need ratification of Cluetrain's gospel that markets are conversations, just consider that this vital phenomenon is all talk and all action but no money.
We haven't developed the vocabulary to credit the open source dynamic for what it is rather than a puzzling aberration of hackerdom. Once we have the vocabulary — a way of measuring quality vs. cost — we'll elevate open source to the pinnacle it deserves: the most productive process in an economy obsessed with productivity. - Britt Blaser (for space, cut down to last paragraph, if necessary)
The difference between the self-righteous boomer generation of yesterday and the self righeous x-generation of today is simply this: The WWW has accelerated the "sell out" cycle. - john316 in Webmaster World
Hmm. Why "The opposite sex"? Why does it have to be so adversarial? Why not "The alternative sex"? Or if one is set on being hostile why not "The pestilential ones"? - John Graham-Cumming in UseTheSource
Potato chips cooked in vegetable oil, Doritos, and Fritos make the best kindling when ignited at 5400 feet elevation in a starter cylinder. — The Oregonian
"Look at the NFL's running scoreboard, ref-mounted cameras, and even sound effects: They're all lifted from videogames. 'When we started Fox Sports in 1994, I went out and got...every videogame I could,' says Fox Sports Networks chairman David Hill. 'What fascinated me was how videogames were so rich and multi-layered, while television was two-dimensional'. - Entertainment Weekly
"I don't like computers. They only give answers." - Pablo Picasso
"Linux has gone from a graduate student's project to a major force" - Stacey Quandt and Bob Zimmerman, in a Giga Information Group report