> Some PR or marketing guy wrote them then showed them to the person to whom they'd be attributed to get their ok

I happen to know the guy that AFAIK was in charge of preparing the press release and he's actually a major contributor to the codebase, a geek par excellence and have been nagging people to get him quotes on the development mailing list.

The fact that apart from hacking C code he also knows how to write a catchy press release just makes him all the awesomer :)