Clippy

“So what we ended up doing was, the next release of Office, which became Office 2000, we sort of demoted Clippy, and reduced his interactions, or its interactions, or her interactions some”

“Frank and Ollie were like, you want the box. And we're like, we do. Yeah. They're like, because every character needs a stage. And this allows the character to exit and enter with grace because otherwise it would be like an alien and it would just disappear.”

“Lisa Gurry on the office marketing team, like, had this, like, let's really go crazy. Yeah. And, like, actually, Like, have a retirement party, and so we went, we flew down to San Francisco, we met with the press to tell them this, and then at one point we jus…”

“Clippy ended up being the default, and so that was probably why, and also the absurdity of a paperclip telling you to write a letter.”

“Plus we could only have like, you know, 30 different little animations, like types of things like here's waving or smiling or looking, thinking or whatever. And each one can only have a few frames. Right. Because we had to fit on the floppies.”

“There were a good dozen people working on this, and I was just one.”

“I honestly believe in hindsight that the, sort of, the boldness of out front retiring him, as opposed to, like, just secretly cutting him and pretending like he never existed. Or it never existed. I keep saying he, but there's no gender. I think that contribut…”

“Steve Wallstrom from Business Week was like, I was skeptical, but I really liked it a lot. And Peter Coffey at PC Week. Those would be the two mainstream and tech review. Peter Coffey was like, this is a great idea. Like, this makes it easier to use. Yeah. Lik…”

“Gilbert Gottfried, the comedian, was the voice.”