The 2005 IT Year In Quotes 142
PCM2 writes "InfoWorld is carrying a news story that sums up the year in quotes from IT executives. Lots of fun stuff to be had here, including former WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers: 'I know what I don't know, and to this day I don't know technology and I don't know accounting and finance.' Also: 'We have so many rivals it's frightening. The week after next I will meet Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and I will [shake hands and]look down and see if I still have a hand.' - Sony's Stringer"
Rare to get such honesty these days. (Score:5, Insightful)
It is rare to get such honesty these days.
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Intentional Web Initiative [intentionalweb.org]
Re:Rare to get such honesty these days. (Score:3, Funny)
To tell the truth, I don't want that much honesty.
Re:Rare to get such honesty these days. (Score:3, Insightful)
It is rare to get such honesty these days."
That's not honesty. That's a CEO kissing ass, hoping the board won't fire him. An honest CEO would explain in detail why that division lost so much money, why it was his fault, and how he would rectify the issue.
Re:Rare to get such honesty these days. (Score:2)
Re:Rare to get such honesty these days. (Score:1)
Yes, but that woundn't make for a very good quote, would it?
Re:Rare to get such honesty these days. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Rare to get such honesty these days. (Score:2)
That's not honesty. That's a CEO kissing ass, hoping the board won't fire him. An honest CEO would explain in detail why that division lost so much money, why it was his fault, and how he would rectify the issue.
And all that in a single quote.
Re:Rare to get such honesty these days. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Rare to get such honesty these days. (Score:1)
Re:Rare to get such honesty these days. (Score:1)
That's how. Why on earth would you think that he should explain it to the general public?
Re:Rare to get such honesty these days. (Score:1)
A statement made to a journalist would inevitably make it back to a board member, sooner or later -- which is what I meant
Re:Rare to get such honesty these days. (Score:1, Troll)
Re:Rare to get such honesty these days. (Score:2)
Re:Rare to get such honesty these days. (Score:2)
Re:Rare to get such honesty these days. (Score:2)
Yeah that would make me puke too. (Score:1)
Re:Yeah that would make me puke too. (Score:2)
They forgot a few (Score:1, Informative)
"I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google." -- Steve Jobs
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?" -- Thomas Hesse, Sony
Sorry, Steve Ballmer (Score:2)
Re:Sorry, Steve Ballmer (Score:2, Funny)
Re:They forgot a few (Score:5, Informative)
Um, wasn't that Steve Ballmer? I mean, there's a bit of a difference.
Re:They forgot a few (Score:3, Funny)
not really
Re:They forgot a few (Score:1)
Yeah there is. Like Ballmer could kill Jobs and his whole family just by sitting on them.
Re:They forgot a few (Score:1, Funny)
What the hell is this? (Score:1, Offtopic)
Oh well, now when I've been modded down, I can see someone else here posted that Sony quote 10 minutes later and was modded insightful. Sigh.
Re:What the hell is this? (Score:1)
Re:What the hell is this? (Score:1)
Hope the OP can take a good slapping.
Re:What the hell is this? (Score:5, Insightful)
Look on the bright side at least you didn't have a topic go from +5 insightful to -1 insightful (damn over rated), like I have several times. I'm starting to wonder if I have made a few enemies modding me down when I get a high rated comment.
Just remember idiots go for the easy mods and if they don't have anyone to lead them (notice it's always +5 -1 or just the default 1/2 when things are modded), they'll mod up the first thing they think is even remotely correct/funny (waste of mod points alert)/they agree with.
Welcome to Slashdot, where the ???? always stands for get minions/followers
Re:What the hell is this? (Score:2)
I see a handful of bad mods here and there, but never 5 on a single comment.
I don't know about your exact comments, but often wrong/ pointless comments are modded way up by idiots, then get read by a lot of non-idiots with mod points, and down they go.
Re:What the hell is this? (Score:4, Funny)
Hey guys are you asleep or something?!? He's at like +5!!
I thought we went over this last meeting, when you see a post by Turn-X Alphonse you mod it down! Now, considering there's eight of you on shift WITH mod points I should not be seeing a +5 here!
Bloody n00bs, don't even know how to run a simple conspiracy...
Re:What the hell is this? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What the hell is this? (Score:2)
Do you Digg it?
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=170771&cid= 14226613 [slashdot.org]
"2005" (Score:1, Funny)
I don't get it.
Re:"2005" (Score:1, Funny)
Here's one from drewzhrodague (Score:5, Funny)
My 2005 IT Quote of the Year (Score:5, Funny)
*sound of chair hitting the wall*
"What the FUCK was that?"
Re:My 2005 IT Quote of the Year (Score:4, Funny)
"Screw the nano." (Score:5, Funny)
He's right! 640 songs ought to be enough for anyone!
Re:"Screw the nano." (Score:1)
Sounds like someone who is a radio listener.
Seriously though - what the fuck? I don't even listen to music much and my collection (just in MP3s) is about 24,000. The nano would cary ONE or TWO discographies of my favorite bands.
Re:"Screw the nano." (Score:3, Insightful)
I have an 80GB Neuros for a reason : Discographies on the go.
Pick a band, aim the car and drive off.
640 songs? My archaic laptop has more than that on it, and I use it once a month.
ESR such a dolt (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:ESR such a dolt (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, but did he pass the geek smell test? That's my litmus for nerdery. If he has that 3-day-old smell of farted burritos and stale Cheetos, he get my nod of approval. Otherwise, pfft, you're completely right.
Re:ESR such a dolt (Score:4, Funny)
Careful dude, or he might get to feeling like putting a lead cork in you.
You probably just shouldn't pay much attention to those "three letter" people anyway.
KFG
Re:ESR such a dolt (Score:5, Funny)
KFG"
Heh, heh, heh.
Slightly OT, but... Every time I see the nick "kfg", I think it must mean "Kentucky Fried Goat". And that makes me smile.
Re:ESR such a dolt (Score:4, Funny)
One of these days I'm really going to have to have a talk with my mother about that one.
KFG
Re:ESR such a dolt (Score:1)
And all this time I thought it was just a very clever nick....
Re:ESR such a dolt (Score:2)
Ditto.
Re:ESR such a dolt (Score:2)
Re:ESR such a dolt (Score:2)
There are LOTS of other people I would give the title of "Open Source leader" to. Hell, there could be s
Re:ESR such a dolt (Score:2)
He may be a gasbag but at least he is not a lying peice of shit gasbag like Ballmer or Gates are. I think you have to keep things in perpective here. Corporate america is full of gasbags who have done nothing useful in their whole lives. These people not only speak marketdroit gibberish but they would not know the truth if it bit them on the ass. Have you e
Re:ESR such a dolt (Score:2)
Yes he did. And that's just about only worthwhile thing he has done.
So he wrote some small application, big fucking deal. Do you see developers of Frozen Bubble proclaiming themselves as "Uberhackers"? How about developers of Kate, XMMS, NetHack, Kdevelop, Metacity, Procmail, X.org or Amarok? Each of those apps is a lot more impressive and complicated that F
Re:ESR such a dolt (Score:1, Funny)
A contender from Sony (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:A contender from Sony (Score:2)
Re:A contender from Sony (Score:2, Insightful)
The first time I read that quote, I thought "most people don't know what malignant melanoma is, so why should they care about it?"
Re:A contender from Sony (Score:2)
Yeeesh. Stop that, InfoWorld.
The Real Jem; (Score:3, Interesting)
-- Eric Raymond, one of the prime movers in the open-source movement, who also describes himself as "Microsoft's worst nightmare" after he received an e-mail pitch from Microsoft asking if he was interested in a job. (Sept. 9.)
Re:The Real Jem; (Score:2)
(Microsoft HR: Sir, just forget about it. We weren't offering you a job.)
Re:The Real Jem; (Score:1)
And in other quotes: (Score:5, Funny)
Correction. (Score:1)
Not me, Bill. Just you.- Steve Jobs
Missing quotes... (Score:1, Redundant)
Hmmm, no quote about someone "going to fu*&%^$& kill" someone else?
How sad.
Developer comment... (Score:5, Funny)
Which kinda reminds of the line from the remake of The Thing: "I don't know what that was, but it's weird and it's pissed off."
Re:Developer comment... (Score:2)
"You know what happens when I get upset! That's it. I'm upset!"
*thing pops out of his head and makes a noise before poping back in*
"What the hell was that?"
"I don't know. That's what happens when I get upset..."
How about this one.... (Score:5, Funny)
I guess he means that he's dishonestly thown a chair.
Re:How about this one.... (Score:4, Funny)
Long Memories (Score:5, Insightful)
Swainson's not kidding, there. Especially when a company does something really boneheaded, people don't forget, and they don't even forgive. (I think maybe people feel like forgiveness is for other humans, not for corporations.)
I was on the phone with a recruiter earlier today, and mention of Claria (formerly Gator) came up. He said that it was really difficult to place people there. There were the occasional ones who just didn't recognize the name, but at least half his potential hires went "Claria? They're the people who used to be Gator! I'm not working there! Don't even send them my résumé."
Note that these are people who are out of work, too. Some missteps are just so bad, you can never recover from them. Associating yourself with sleazy and excruciatingly annoying marketing methods is one of them. (Only time will tell if putting rootkits on your customers' computers is another.)
Re:Long Memories (Score:2)
This story, believe it or not, gives me hope. Thanks for sharing it. :)
Re:Long Memories (Score:2)
Re:Long Memories (Score:2, Insightful)
Sure, an average
Re:Long Memories (Score:2)
My favorite (or actually least favorite) is when something goes wrong, you get it sorted and the damage was minor, yet the end users remember it forever, while overlooking everything that's gone right, or actually outstanding.
Then, based upon these selective memories they elect to
Re:Long Memories (Score:1, Insightful)
What do you know? (Score:5, Funny)
So, to become a CEO of a major communications company, you need not know technology, accounting, or finance. Did the board of directors just need a really good shortstop for the annual softball game against the engineers?
Re:What do you know? (Score:2, Interesting)
CEO's are there to manage people, not tell Joe Beancounter that he forgot to carry a 1.
Re:What do you know? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:What do you know? (Score:2)
Re:What do you know? (Score:2)
Re:What do you know? (Score:2)
In this case few zeros, too apparently.
Re:What do you know? (Score:1)
Re:What do you know? (Score:1)
Re:What do you know? (Score:3, Funny)
"Did you know you had to report these earning in this way?"
"No I did not"
"Why not? That's just basic accounting"
"I didn't know that's all"
"When you went to school didn't they teach you that?"
"I guess not".
"What did you major in?"
"I have an MBA".
"YOu have an MBA and you didn't know a basic accounting principle? Where did you get you degree from?"
"Harward business school".
Man I fell down laughing. It wasn't a great adve
gotta be the rootkit quote (Score:3, Interesting)
This is the quote of my year in my book.
This one has it all - sony, the queen, arrows, jam (Score:3, Interesting)
A female monarch older than most of the countries on the planet complaining about the remotes made by the first company to deploy rootkits in commercial products - that pretty much sums up the current state of humanity.
Re:This one has it all - sony, the queen, arrows, (Score:1)
Re:This one has it all - sony, the queen, arrows, (Score:3, Interesting)
Queen Elizabeth the II is 79 years old. There are, what, 203 countries in the world, roughly, depending on how you count? Considering the revolutions in Africa, and the disolving of Soviet Russia, and the aftermath of World War II (which brought many colonized states into revolution and eventually nationhood) it's not hard to imagine that 102 countries have emerged in the last 80 years, depending on how one counts the age of a country.
Re:This one has it all - sony, the queen, arrows, (Score:3, Informative)
total: 273, younger than queen: 132 = 48.3%
So yeah, you're probably pretty close (depending on how one counts countries, and ages etc)
It's good to be underestimated -- BillG (Score:3, Informative)
Do you see any threat to Microsoft from companies like Yahoo! and Google which have entered the software market?
The software space always has new companies coming into the domain and for the first time people seem to underestimate Microsoft. It is healthy competition and it is good to be underestimated once in a while.
Full Interview Here [business-standard.com]
Re:It's good to be underestimated -- BillG (Score:2)
I've actually been waiting for about three years now, I think. In which I figured that shifting to Linux was easier for my three yea
How's this... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How's this... (Score:2)
Desktop Linux, anyone? (Score:1)
My humble sumbission (Score:2)
Sort of popped into my head (pun intended) after I heard about the SONY rootkit.
What I want to know is (Score:2)
Re:Linus logic... (Score:4, Funny)
I'll be here all week, folks.
Re:Linus logic... (Score:2)
Geeks these days... (Score:2)
Re:Linus logic... (Score:1)
Re:Linus logic... (Score:2)
IMDB goodness: here [imdb.com]
Re:The 3 words that Slashdot dreads: (Score:2)
Re:Popups?? (Score:1)