Quotes for the week ending 12 May, 2008

“Steve Jobs doesn’t need sa sales force because he already has one: employees like the ones in my company.”

Mark Slada, CIO of a company in Johannesburg, in a Businessweek story about how more businesses are demanding Macs in the workplace.

“Journalistically, going alomng with such an arrangement would be completely inappropriate. I agreed immediately.”

E.J. Montini, columnist in the Arizona Republic, on not mentioning the name of someone selling T-shirt with the name of each soldier killed in Iraq, with the words “Bush lied, they died.”

“Pardon Our Dust

Brian Lusk, Manager of Corporate Communication, at Southwest Airlines, on the relaunching of the blog Nuts About Southwest, this week.

“The final piece in the digital jigsaw.”

ITV chairman, Michael Grade, on FreeSat, the free digital television service from ITV and BBC, launching this week.

“It’s becoming clearer that paper is holding news delivery back in other ways … I’m about ready to admit that the Web isn’t just another outlet for newspapers; it’s becoming better than print.”

Seth Grimes, an analytics strategist, commenting on The NewYorkTimes.com use of a new form of visualization to show relationships in a graphic that’s interactive.

“The Internet is the shortest, hardest wall against which your voice will echo back.”

Stephen Colbert. Enough said!

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