If he said that - and he may have to discourage further pirating - he was wrong.
Anyway, it seems some smarter* people who are (at least vaguely) familiar with the 21st Century seem to be in charge at WotC now so I suspect we will be seeing PDF releases very early. I must admit, I don't think I would have become such a big 4E fan without the (legal) PDF releases. I've really gotten used to books of all sorts being in e-formats.
* No slight on Scott Rouse. Slight aimed at the clowns who took the legal advice from the legal clowns who suggested that removed PDFs for sale would reduce piracy. Of course, Google proves that it has the opposite effect. Moral of the story: never let legal clowns make business decisions.
I'm certainly hopeful in this regard, given they've slowly been putting older stuff up for sale again, after taking it all down (which was very irritating, given I'd bought a bunch of it!).
I mean, I will say this, or rather scream it "I AIN'T NEVER GOING BACK!" (please ignore the grammatical curiosity of this phrase), with regards to carrying around 3+ heavy hardback books just to have the complete rules on hand. There are three ways that this can be solved, of course:
1) Some kind of online DDI Compendium/Adventure Builder/Character Builder. This is my preferred main solution, as I virtually always have internet access (I know some others do not!).
2) Good quality PDFs available reasonably soon after paper release and at sane prices (so not more than 60% or so of paper, preferably more like 30-40%).
3) Small softback versions of the rules - this could get pretty unwieldy after a while, but 4E managed to do a decent job with this.
But carrying a physical PHB, DMG, and MM with me? Nope. Will not do it! (esp. as they are a chunky 320 pages each!) Let alone the other books that are likely to become more or less necessary with time.