"What that means is if you've got monkeys trying out passwords to break in, now you've got monkeys on steroids. You know it doesn't make you safer. Speed kills in this arena and I think that's something that's not well understood."

DNS inventor Paul Mockapetris on why increased network speeds can be bad for security. (eSecurityPlanet)

"You know you've arrived when Microsoft sends protesters to your show. Or sues you!"

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff commenting on people handing out literature on Microsoft Dynamics CRM outside the convention center where the Salesforce Cloudforce user conference was being held. (eCRMGuide)

"The most common misperception is that everything will end in the cloud or that all of your data will go there. All the emphasis is on cheaper and efficient ways to deliver IT. In reality, it's also a way of delivering new industrial value -- that's the more exciting thing."

Erich Clementi, vice president of strategy and general manager of enterprise initiatives at IBM. (Forbes)

"That decision's really Apple's. We stand ready to do it, but that's an Apple decision."

Ivan Seidenberg, CEO of Verizon Wireless parent Verizon Communications, on the carrier's willingness to carry the iPhone. (Bloomberg Businessweek)

"We're just trying to find creative ways of generating additional revenues. It's an exciting marriage of technology with need, and an opportunity to keep California in the forefront."

Democratic Senator Curren Price of Los Angeles, author a bill that would allow the state to begin research on the use of electronic license plates. The digital plates would generate advertising revenue that California needs to help close a $19 billion budget deficit. (San Jose Mercury News)