Month: August 1997

“My true feeling about email is it’s psychotic. I don’t want anything out of my computer that I didn’t put in it.”

Novelist A.M. Homes, CNN, 14 August 1997

“We go out of our way to make sure our employees have a great environment. We still do free lunches — they’re twice a week as opposed to five days a week.”

NetObjects CEO Samir Arora on his company’s worker perks, Upside.com, 11 August 1997

“It’s hard to learn when you succeed.”

Be CEO Jean-Louis Gassée, BusinessWeek, 25 August 1997

“Autodesk is about design software. Next to food and water, the human race needs things and that’s what we design.”

Autodesk CEO Carol Bartz on that thing her company does, News.com, 11 August 1997

“I’m not against computers, but I think they have their place and it’s not everywhere. When you’re speaking on the Senate floor, you should be speaking from a lifetime of experience, not from what you punch up on a computer.”

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), on the debate over allowing laptops on the Senate floor, New York Times, 10 August 1997