"My mother will stop being ashamed of me because I am a CEO."

"They are a company that builds really reliable products and has a reputation for service. They are also boring."
Analyst Amy Wohl, who heads up US technology consulting firm Wohl Associates, discusses HP's new image.
http://www.silicon.com/a56433

"My mother will stop being ashamed of me because I am a CEO."
NatSemi CEO Brian Halla after predicting a boom based on embedded semiconductor technology.
http://www.silicon.com/a56462

"Our goal is to make everybody say 'Ah-ha!'"
Not Alan Partridge but Robbie Ray Wright, director of mobility, Microsoft EMEA, commenting on new technologies at the IT Forum event in Copenhagen.

"There is decades' worth of fibre optics out there. Elsewhere, there is just a lot of new capital, plant and equipment. As a consequence, [companies] won't feel any great urgency to go and replace it."
Carlos Bonilla, special assistant to President George W Bush for economic policy.
http://www.silicon.com/a56484

"At the end of the decade, a terabyte will be the typical storage on a personal computer."
Bill Gates, the man who once predicted no one would ever need more than 64k, has another go.
http://www.silicon.com/a56418

"We were relatively unaffected by the whole dot-comedy but the conditions do have to be right."
Tom Hockaday, executive director at Isis Innovation, Oxford University's vehicle for spinning out R&D efforts, speaking the current health of that market.

"The bottom line is the industry cannot agree on a responsible disclosure process, and the community and the internet at large suffer."
Greg Shipley, chief technology officer of security consultancy Neohapsis.
http://www.silicon.com/a56499

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"It's a form of madness, all these separate systems"
http://www.silicon.com/a56414
"[It] is about as surprising as dead leaves falling to the ground in autumn..."
http://www.silicon.com/a56317
"A dancing rhino is all very interesting, but it doesn't exactly tell me why I should invest in broadband."
http://www.silicon.com/a56216
"We've already had an earthquake and storms this week... but now this."
http://www.silicon.com/a56123
"I'm not a hunter, but I've been told that if you want to hit duck, you don't shoot where the duck is. You shoot where it's going to be..."
http://www.silicon.com/a56022