“The impact of the Internet has already become so apparent. The other day I was looking for a local soccer schedule. It’s midnight, and who are you going to call?”
Palo Alto City Council member Liz Kniss, taking the more-wired-than-thou message to her soccer mom constituency, The New York Times, 8 December 1997
“Wired Digital is not for sale. Wired magazine is not for sale. Wired Ventures is not for sale.”
Former Wired publisher and editor Louis Rossetto (okay, he’s still chairman), delicately addressing recent rumors, News.com, 4 December 1997
“I was not a competent and capable CEO. I’m still responsible. But it was neglect, not malice.”
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, on his company’s early-’90s meltdown, BusinessWeek, 8 December 1997
“Netscape will not become a primary content company. We will not do our own news or share prices.”
Marc Andreessen, Netscape’s cofounder and executive vice president of not much really, missing a perfectly good business opportunity, Yahoo/Reuters, 2 December 1997
“I just find email to be a much easier way to communicate because you don’t have to worry about calling your staff … when they really ought to be devoting their time to a higher priority matter than the one I want to get an answer to.”
US Vice President Al Gore, showing that the games you can play with computers aren’t just shoot-’em-ups, The Washington Post, 29 November 1997
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