Roger has a way with words. He can make just about any wrist-gnawing meeting interesting. I've seen it happen with my very own bloodshot eyeballs!
Here is just a mere sampling of what Roger has been known to say in meetings, to his phone service or to himself.
"For a
publication to appear on the
"I hate you all,
"I've designed more magazines than you'll ever read!"
"File!
" That's what we're building here...
"Black, you're a genius!"
"When I was 23 years-old, I had my OWN assistant."
"Je suis Roger Black."
"Perhaps he should consider the growth opportunities in an industry such as dry cleaning!"
"I think I need a bigger hula hoop."
"Community is shit. Community is like YMCA."
"This music is pathetic.
"One client in the flesh is worth two clients on the phone."
"I've forgotten more than you'll ever learn."
"It's like putting the chickens before the cart before they hatch."
"Never be photographed next to a supermodel with your shirt off."
"The poor are always with us."
"Asking someone if they like your Web site is like asking them if they like your dog."
"I believe in living in the future...er, I mean the present."
Internet without its own
typeface is like going on TV
naked," Black pontificated.
starting with YOU!"
-- Roger Black at @Home content staff member
-- Roger to an unknown hapless victim standing by his desk
Throw Away!
I'll Take It!"
-- Roger yelling at his phone service, Wildfire
a community of dupes."
-- Roger overheard talking on the phone.
-- Roger to himself
-- Roger at @Home staff meeting trying to convince everyone he needed help with something.
-- Roger on phone trying to reach the Paris office of IAB.
-- Roger referring to an intern applicant who chose to intern at Hotwired over @Home Network.
-- Roger talking in a conversation regarding Etch-A-Sketches and hula hoops.
-- Roger in regards to using the word "community" in a button interface.
I feel like I'm working at a goddamn Denny's."
-- Roger commenting on the music played at work.
-- Roger says on the phone.
-- Roger says to someone over the phone.
-- Roger suggests I put this quote somewhere on this page.
-- Roger says in regards to a photo of him posing with model Christie Brinkley.
-- Roger says in regards to @Home subscribers using old computers.
-- Roger says in an interview at MSN's TV show The Site, when they ask him if he likes their Web page.
-- Overheard Roger saying at work.