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"It's either Segways or Strangeways"
Tech quotes of the year - from Steve Ballmer to Homer Simpson...

By Natasha Lomas

Published: Tuesday 23 December 2008

January

"There are very few companies that understand software."
-- Former chairman of Microsoft, Bill Gates, speaking in an interview with silicon.com sister site CNET News.com

"I don't think there's a debate to be had. If you can find someone - some meaningful body of people - who are saying it is not humans who are generating [climate change] I'd be amazed. I think the argument has, to all intents and purposes, collapsed."
-- Polar explorer, Pen Hadow, giving his view on whether climate change is manmade in an interviewwith silicon.com

"Vista will be a lot stronger in the next year."
-- Former chairman of Microsoft, Bill Gates, speaking in an interview with silicon.com sister site CNET News.com

February

"Apple has raised the bar to the iPhone and we all now know how important user interfaces are."
-- Former Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin in a keynote speech at Mobile World Congress

"I learned the hard way, in mainframes and mini computers, the best technology doesn't always win, does it?"
-- John Chambers, CEO of Cisco, in a keynote speech at Mobile World Congress

"I do [have a Facebook account]. You can see me riding on my tractor."
-- LinkedIn CEO, Dan Nye, explaining the difference between LinkedIn and Facebook in an interview with silicon.com

March

"Definitely not British Airways' finest hour."
-- BA CEO Willie Walsh's assessment of the chaotic opening of Heathrow Terminal 5

"To tell you the truth, I was disappointed."
-- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak 'fessing up to being unimpressed by the first generation iPhone

"My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better."
-- Apple CEO Steve Jobs explaining his management style in an interview with Fortune magazine

"In the mean time I'm off to install my own mobile base station so I can increase the power level to my handset and minimise the non-risk in my life."
-- Futurist and silicon.com columnist Peter Cochrane flexing his sarcasm muscle while rallying against "scare stories about mobile phones cooking our brain" in his blog on silicon.com

April

"The global cyber world promises a more reassuring, safer option than the messy world of in-your-face three-dimensional life. But the IT technologies are already blurring the cyber world and reality."
-- Professor Susan Greenfield, in an interview with The Sunday Times

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