Memex 1.1

“Morning. Hooray ! 79 degrees and blue skies. And I pissed off the mail again. Life is sweet.”

From the Twitterstream of ‘disgraced’ TV presenter Jonathan Ross, currently spending part of his three-month suspension without pay on hols in Florida. Needless to say, the Daily Mail is fuming about him. Come to think of it, does the Mail ever do anything other than fume? Perhaps it should be banned under the no-smoking-in-public legislation.

“Communism failed due to hiding the economic truth. Capitalism will fail as it hides the ecological truth”

Discuss.

From Tim O’Reilly’s Twitterstream.

I don’t want to see Detroit’s auto industry wiped out, but what are we supposed to do with auto executives who fly to Washington in three separate private jets, ask for a taxpayer bailout and offer no detailed plan for their own transformation?

Tom Friedman, in the New York Times.

“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”

Harold Geneen, the guy who transformed ITT into the 11th largest company in the US.

“At this point I should note that for the first time, both the United States secretary of state and secretary of defense have doctorates in Russian studies,” Mr. Gates said. “A fat lot of good that’s done us.”

US Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, speaking at an Oxford Analytica conference yesterday.

“Today’s necessary but likely very expensive action for taxpayers is the consequence of regulatory neglect and of a broader political system’s reluctance to take on what should have been clearly seen as festering problems.”

Larry Summers, sometime Harvard President and former Treasury Secretary, commenting on the nationalisation of Freddie Mac and Fannie May.

“We spend too much time getting our systems to work, and not enough putting them to work.”

Lorcan Dempsey

“Greatness is measured by the size of your manhood.”

Subject line of a junk email caught by my spam-filter. Sounds vaguely Churchillian, don’t you think?

“Maybe he is interested in some subject, but it isn’t a subject we teach here.”

From one of Lord Snowden’s school reports during his time at Eton.

Source

“I’m hoping the two of them will beat each others brains out over search and leave the display market to us.”

AOL CEO Randy Falco commenting on Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo.