2005 Foot-in-Mouth Awards

[Sabre]

"Screw the nano."
-- Motorola CEO Ed Zander

"I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google."
-- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer

"Walk this way, talk this wa-ay."
-- Intel chairman Craig Barrett

"Most people don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
-- Thomas Hesse, president of Sony BMG's global digital business division

"You're obviously from France."
-- Intel CEO Paul Ottelini

"All research up until now has been conducted in strict observance of the government-set guidelines."
-- Korean stem-cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk


"I know what I don't know, and to this day I don't know technology and I don't know accounting and finance."
-- Bernie Ebbers, ex-CEO of WorldCom

"Lightweight, and crank it on, and you shuffle the shuffle."
-- President Bush

"It was done as a joke that went horribly, horribly wrong."
-- Fake Wikipedia poster Brian Chase

"Mr. Negroponte has called it a $100 laptop -- I think a more realistic title should be 'the $100 gadget.'"
-- Intel chairman Craig Barrett

"(Telecoms) and the cable companies have made an investment, and for a Google or Yahoo or Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes (for) free is nuts!"
-- SBC Communications CEO Ed Whitacre