Quotes from Everyone's Favorite Product Manager!

[This was first published on 07/30/08 - It's now 03/12/19 and I think it's safe to say that the person I'm speaking of below was Brian Gardner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianjgardner001/]

Alright, this will probably only make you laugh if you work with me at Yosemite Technologies (or if you have ever worked with the person that I'm quoting).

I've compiled a list of snippets from emails that I've received from everyone's favorite VP, none other than 'The Doctor' himself- you should recognize who it is right away:


"I don't remember agreeing to this, so I'm assuming there is some mistake on my part."

"I had to simplify your slides both for compatibility and readability reasons. But we're going to need to move off of Powerpoint soon to avoid these issues as well as the risk of corruption you run with a frequently edited ppt file."

"I looked at what you wrote about the Watchguard option and am not comfortable with the fact that it doesn't seem to provide packet state inspection (commonly called spi or stateful packet inspection). SonicWall, iptables and the open source solution above provide this capability."

...Mind you, just about every firewall since 1998 has had SPI.

And my favorite conversation so far:

"Unless some development has occurred that we have not yet announced or planned, we don’t support the hyper-v vss writer for proxy backup. We talked about doing it but there wasn’t time with the current release. This is scheduled for development, potentially, later this year."

...It turns out that had already been developed, and everyone but this person (the product manager) knew about it.

"Are we talking about the same thing?"

My Favorite:

"Robin,

I've been designing and deploying bu architectures for over 10 yrs. I know this."

Me: "I don't see the point in discussing this any more."