The technology (software) industry really only has 75 leaders, they just continually recycle in and out of successful and failed companies. - Eric Norlin

<http://ericnorlin.typepad.com/weblog/2004/03/cracking_the_in.html>

When you experience bad service it's because that service is hostage to a business plan. - Britt Blaser

(on the phone)

The most important operating system you wirte applications for ain't Windows, or Macintosh, or Linux. It's Homo Sapiens Version 1.0. It shipped about a hundred thousand years ago, there's no update in sight; but it's the one that runs everything. - Bill Hill

<http://channel9.msdn.com>

Open source has no secrets. - Doc Searls

When you stop to think about it, you keep secrets from people when you don't want them to know the truth. Secrets, even when legitimate and necessary, as in genuine national-security cases, are what you might call passive lies. - Walter Cronkite

<www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5031>

<http://staugustine.com/stories/040404/opi_2233122.shtml>

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. -- A. A. Milne

"The companies that are trying to treat Linux like it's regular software and have a business model based on per-CPU or per-desktop licensing worry the heck out of me... For us, that makes Linux prohibitively expensive. And it makes a stronger case for us to go Windows. This is not a religion. I want the most value for the dollars I spend." Rick Carey, Chief Technology Architect, Bank One.

"Who wouldn't want to be Microsoft? I mean, come on. Honestly." - Matt Szulik, CEO, RedHat