"It's a form of madness, all these separate systems"

"This is a pretty jazzed group of people."
Michael Capellas describes his team at WorldCom.

"They were all pretty jazzed."
Michael 'jazz' Capellas, again describing his WorldCom colleagues.

"During the antitrust lawsuit, not everyone in our industry raced to support us,"
Steve Ballmer proves understatement is alive and well and living in Redmond. http://www.silicon.com/a56381

"Notwithstanding institutionalised inactivity and prevarication by the industry regulator Oftel, we welcome the CCAT judgement as underlining a judicial commitment to ensure competition in this important new market - competition is vital if the UK is to achieve its ambitious programme for mass consumer take-up of broadband internet."
David Melville, Freeserve general counsel, gets feisty about Oftel.
http://www.silicon.com/a56341

"It cost a fortune to make deals such as these happen and not in one case have they worked."
Rene Carayol, author and silicon.com columnist, on the mega-mergers that created media conglomerates such as AOL Time Warner and Vivendi Universal. http://www.silicon.com/a56360

"It's wonderful to be here because I really want to put faces to the emails."
NY attorney general Eliot Spitzer addressing analysts at the Institutional Investor All-Star awards dinner following months of investigating Wall Street banks. See http://www.silicon.com/a56385 for more.

"They will bring Microsoft PocketPC pricing closer to that of Palm [OS-based devices] but even Dell can't close that gap completely."
PalmSource CEO David Nagel on Dell entering the PDA market.
http://www.silicon.com/a563338

"It's a form of madness, all these separate systems."
Larry Ellison calls for simplified IT infrastructures.
http://www.silicon.com/a56399

"The key message here is that serving business needs and supporting socially responsible activities are not mutually exclusive. We must bring an end to the view that social, environmental and economic goals are essentially in conflict. The reality is far from it."
Stephen Timms, Minister of State for Ecommerce and Competitiveness, on the launch of a new IT industry scheme to encourage IT staff to volunteer their skills in the community.
http://www.silicon.com/a56333

"I'm jazzed"
Guess who... one more "jazzed" from Capellas, speaking at the press conference to officially announce him as the new boss of troubled firm WorldCom.