"A dancing rhino is all very interesting, but it doesn't exactly tell me why I should invest in broadband."

"We find that all of them don't perform that well. Let's face it, they are all just garbage."

Head of telecoms at an investment bank on telecoms service providers.
http://www.silicon.com/a56159

"The online marketplace is fine. The feedback I am getting from agencies suggests next year is going to be good. In fact I think more money will be spent on advertising in 2003 than has ever been spent before."

Paul Wright, MD of silicon.com's Start-up of the month, Aura Sports, warms to the subject of an online advertising recovery...
http://www.silicon.com/a56186

"[3G] also needs a reasonable number of base stations. In practice users will get about 80kbps, at a much greater cost than GPRS, which currently gives 50 to 60kbps. My reaction is not much more than a yawn."

Marty Cooper, chief executive of ArrayComm and the man credited with inventing the mobile phone while working at Motorola.
http://www.silicon.com/a56196

"A dancing rhino is all very interesting, but it doesn't exactly tell me why I should invest in broadband."

Andy Williams from Broadband4Britain, talking about BT's latest advertising campaign. Read what else he had to say about the state of Broadband Britain: http://www.silicon.com/a56168

"Think about it: more complexity, more customers, more devices, greater promise in productivity. There aren't enough IT architects in the world, nor can we afford to pay the bills. Fundamentally we have to invent and architect systems that function much like the human body - they self-adjust temperature, heart rate."

Sam Palmisano, IBM's chief executive, as he outlined on Wednesday his vision of computing in the near future.
http://www.silicon.com/a56206