wired.com — Welcome to Wired News' 2006 Foot-in-Mouth Awards program. You, the readers, have sent us your picks for the lamest quotes from or about the world of technology during this eventful year. We have selected the "best" of those and present them to you now.
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jhemperlyDec 27, 2006
What about attacking the weak point for massive damage? Real time weapon switching? They should have the 2006 Sony foot-in-mouth awards. It'd probably make a longer list.
ardenrDec 27, 2006
#16 on the diggaholic list - You've seen every one of these already.
hoshizakistarDec 27, 2006
Good thing he wasn't right about that one or else we would have firefox to browse digg on... or Diablo II.
ricreeDec 27, 2006
There are some good ones there, but I don't think anyone is really eating their words on a company wide level as much as Sony is.
emoj0388Dec 27, 2006
"I didn't have good intelligence."
kaylaDec 27, 2006
@ricree, he got an Internet and was likely "punching buttons" (Larry King) as well. I say we have an answer.
coldfusion1970Dec 27, 2006
There are some really good Steve Jobs quote on the same Wired site.<a class="user" href="http://www.wired.com/news/culture/1,70512-0.html">http://www.wired.com/news/culture/1,70512-0.html</a>The man is a visionary.
xgordoxDec 27, 2006
The Bush-Google quote really shouldn't be first, unless you truly are a partisan.How many other 60 year old Americans use Google and Google Earth, come on. The guy is 60 and I'm sure internet technology isn't at the top of the list of "things to do."The Stevens quote is much more troublesome, he was the chairman after all, it was his job to know this stuff.
ewy99Dec 27, 2006
Was going to make a comment about how the rocker might be thrown by Ballmer. Thought better of it. And I will now remain silent.
trollenlordDec 28, 2006
My suggestion is here: "I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE. This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do. Please, just tell people to use KDE." Also, "Gnome seems to be developed by interface nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'." -- Linus TorvaldsGreat minds think great. But when they BRAINFART it's something absolutely stellar :-D