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QOTD

October 19, 2009 at 4:15 am PT

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“What’s the old movie line from ‘Annie Hall’? Relationships are like sharks; they move forward, or they die. Well, technology companies either move forward, too, or they die. They become less relevant.”

– Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer

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  • Fred Hamranhansenhansen

    Thrashing around aimlessly is not moving forward; it’s just moving.

    I’m sitting at a PC workstation at a large multinational. If we look at this desk over the last 10 years, the PC on it ran Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, XP, XP, XP, XP.

    That is not moving forward.

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