Month: August 1997

“This is a nation of immigrants. People ought to be able to phone home, and they shouldn’t have to be E. T. to do that.”

Outgoing FCC chairman Reed Hundt, on his agency’s plan to slash international phone rates, Wired News, 7 August 1997

“On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank Mr. Markkula, Ms. Hudson, and Mr. Goldstein for their contributions to Apple during a very difficult time in its history.”

Apple director Edgar Woolard, on canning longtime Apple board member A.C. “Mike” Markkula, company press release, 6 August 1997

“What a beautiful young man Steve Jobs was! How beautiful and young he made us feel reflecting off his brilliance.”

Programmer/writer/lover Dave Winer, DaveNet, 1 August 1997

“If their view of the world is that government is clueless, the answer is not staying in Silicon Valley, it’s coming here and cluing people in.”

Jerry Berman, director of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Democracy and Technology, on high-tech companies’ lobbying efforts, New York Times, 4 August 1997

“You can only become cool once. So I think we’re going into a postcool period and we’re going to be as radical as we can without being cool.”

Kevin Kelly, executive editor of Wired, New York Times, 4 August 1997