“This has been a dream because we’ve done so many extraordinary things — our imagination was really the only limitation.”
Richard Bangs, “adventurist” and editor of the Microsoft Network’s Mungo Park travel adventure site, which MSN VP Pete Higgins recently shuttered, ZDNN/Reuters, 10 December 1997
“The strange thing was that we were given basically two years to compete in a vacuum. And capitalism abhors a vacuum, just like nature.”
Jeff Bezos, explaining his accidental entrepreneurial success at the helm of online bookseller Amazon.com, Nightly Business Report, 10 December 1997
“We’re the bridge between a complex university and a complex business world…. Universities don’t do marketing. We call it ‘development.'”
Jimm Burris, who handles “technology transfer” for New York University’s Center for Advanced Technology, The Village Voice, 10 December 1997
“I wouldn’t rule out the dancing wieners on the news site just yet.”
Edmund Sanctis, senior vice president and general manager of NBC Digital Productions, following a demonstration of an animated Oscar Mayer ad on Warner Bros. Online, overheard at an Internet World ’97 forum, 9 December 1997
“Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.”
Nicholas Negroponte, überpundit and director of MIT’s Media Lab, displaying a deep grasp of contemporary environmental issues, News.com/Reuters, 26 November 1997
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