Annual Foot-in-Mouth Awards

[mandy]

Wired Magazine's 2005 Foot-in-Mouth Awards:

Tech execs say the darndest things. And so do shuffling presidents, and disgraced scientists, and Wikipedia fakers. It's time to relive 2005's biggest spoken gaffes...

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

The most embarrassing executive antics of the year came early in 2005, as a tone-deaf, stiff white guy stepped up to the stage at the Consumer Electronics Show and joined Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler in a duet. Silicon.com has the video.

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

full article: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,6...=rss.index

[jezebel]

That Intel chairman video is fucking pathetic. 

[misteroriginal]

Oh, that's just great. And Steve Jobs is hopping in bed with this Intel guy???

[mandy]

One year later...

It's time for Wired Magazine's 2006 Foot-in-Mouth Awards:

"One of the things I've learned on the Google is to pull up maps. It's very interesting to see -- I've forgotten the name of the program -- but you get the satellite, and you can -- like, I kinda like to look at the ranch. It reminds me of where I wanna be sometimes."
-- Bush, asked during an interview with CNBC if he ever googled anybody.

"They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material."
-- Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)

"Let's face it. We're not changing the world. We're building a product that helps people buy more crap -- and watch porn."
--Seagate CEO Bill Watkins

full list: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72320-0.html

[thentavius]

"Let's face it. We're not changing the world. We're building a product that helps people buy more crap -- and watch porn."
--Seagate CEO Bill Watkins

Wait a minute... part of me agrees with this statement.  :o

I liked "The Google" 

[amy]

I liked "The Google"

My favorite is when he refers to "The Internets" .

[thentavius]

It's kinda cute in a.... weird kinda way.

I'm off to see the Google on the Internets.