Month: January 1998

“I don’t even think the Back button gets a 50 percent clickthrough, and that’s the best link around.”

Joey Anuff, cofounder and editor-by-default of Suck, talking about Net navigation and making it all up along the way at Ad:tech West in Los Angeles, Marketing Computers, 15 January 1998

“I like to surf
the Internet turf.
I find so much stuff.
I can’t get enough.
I want to encrypt my Internet mail.
And I should be able to do it without going to jail.”

Jim Bidzos, chief execrable officer of RSA Data Security, getting err, um, down with the funk at his company’s annual security conference, Computer Reseller News, 14 January 1998

“We need a large technical class that is well trained to do work that is mind-numbingly boring.”

Eric Roberts, associate director of Stanford’s computer science program, The New York Times, 13 January 1998

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“The global economy desperately needs all the yuppies it can muster.”

Edward Yardeni, chief economist for the Deutsche Morgan Grenfell investment house, The New York Times, 5 January 1998

“We don’t have the benefit of that rich historical data or even accurate information about what’s happening now.”

Evan Cohen, “research” director of Silicon Alley guesswork-for-hire firm Jupiter Communications, on his company’s rigorous methodology for online audience estimates, @NY, 9 January 1998

“If you can be fired for bad judgment for sitting in a public place in your underwear, you can be fired for sitting in your underwear on the Internet.”

Linnea McCord, professor of business law at Pepperdine University, who’s obviously not hep to today’s preferred surfing attire, The New York Times, 12 January 1998