<div>Those involved in it went on a fool’s errand, that’s just a fact”<br />— <span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>John McCain</strong></span>, former Republican presidential candidate, on his party-led government shutdown<br /><br />“I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future”<br />— <span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Steve Wozniak</strong></span>, co-founder of Apple, in a television interview<br /><br />“Shinde has a life beyond Patna blasts”<br />—<span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong> Salman Khurshid</strong></span>, defending home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde who attended a music release just after the blasts<br /><br />“Apple’s not a bank... Shareholders haven’t bought the stock to be a bank”<br />— <span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Carl Icahn</strong></span>, billionaire investor, pointing out that Apple is failing to return cash to shareholders<br /> </div><table width="200" cellspacing="8" cellpadding="8" border="0" align="right"><tbody><tr><td><img width="200" vspace="2" hspace="2" height="200" align="middle" src="/image/image_gallery?uuid=6aa7b25e-5999-4216-a602-2fb95f5f2805&groupId=520986&t=1384164874290" alt="" /></td></tr><tr><td>Francois Hollande</td></tr></tbody></table><div>“As a priority? It is a joke”<br />— <span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Bill Gates,</strong></span> founder Microsoft, on connecting the world’s population via the Internet <br /><br />“This effort (is) demanded of businesses that choose to pay such high annual salaries” <br />— <span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Francois Hollande</strong></span><strong>,</strong> President of France, to French football club owners, on the 75 per cent tax on salaries exceeding 1 million euros<br /><br />“BlackBerry is hemorrhaging employees, it is hemorrhaging customers. The only thing that’s growing is doubt” <br />— <strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);">John Stephenson</span></strong>, senior vice-president, First Asset Investment Management, one of BlackBerry’s investors, post BlackBerry’s $1-billion deal with Canadian investor Prem Watsa<br /><br />(This story was published in BW | Businessworld Issue Dated 02-12-2013)</div>