Month: January 1998

“We understand that Mac users are different. Finally, we understand that.”

Ben Waldman, general manager of Microsoft’s Macintosh software business unit speaking at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, MacWeek, 6 January 1998

“We can partner to offer breadth and depth along with top quality — while we work on serving the audience we know best, which is women on the Internet.”

Ellen Pack, founder of Women’s Wire publisher Wire Networks, elaborating on her company’s precisely targeted double-X chromosome demographic and a new partnership with Bloomberg, Advertising Age, 5 January 1998

“We’re out of the business of predicting profitability, and in the business of delivering profitability.”

Apple CFO Fred Anderson, showing that insanely great strategic business sense, News.com, 6 January 1998

“What happens is we get there first, and legitimize the market.”

O’Reilly and Associates founder and CEO Tim O’Reilly, on his software and publishing concern’s history of failing to reap what it sows, Web Week, 5 January 1998

“My fear is that the Government is getting the idea that code is the most efficient regulator in cyberspace. And we don’t have a constitutional tradition to resist that.”

Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School professor and special master in the Micropoly case, The New York Times, 5 January 1998