For those of you unable to attend this year's Optical Fiber Communications/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, here's a bit of what you missed:

"We've gone from seven RBOCs to two and a half--no disrespect to Qwest." --Paul Silverstein, Credit Suisse analyst

"They're very good concepts. I don't think they're lost. But we may not be proliferating those euphemisms anymore." --Chris Rice, executive vice president of planning and engineering, AT&T, on the company's previously expressed strategies, the "concept of one" and the "concept of zero"

"For two years now, I've been able to stand up here and show a chart moving in the right direction." --Dana Cooperson, director of optical research, Ovum-RHK, on the optical sector's revival

"There are two kinds of people in the world. People who believe there are two kinds of people in the world, and people who don't." --Bran Ferren, chief creative officer, Applied Minds

Did you overhear anything interesting at the show?

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