“Because I’m technologically able to find a likeminded person on the other side of the globe, I’m also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor.”
Jeffrey Klein, hellraiser-in-chief of Mother Jones magazine, coming down on the side of optimistic engagement with people who live in your same ZIP code and share your demographic, Mother Jones, March/April 1998
“It strikes at a fundamental human need to be organized.”
Donna Dubinsky, president of 3Com subsidiary Palm Computing, on the PalmPilot’s place among food, shelter, love, laughter, and other lesser requirements, San Jose Mercury News, 15 March 1998
“I say that solutions come not just from the market, or the government but from individual action, and the Web gives you much more of a way to do that.”
Esther Dyson, queen of the Technorealists, which surprisingly is not a retro-disco band, but an assemblage of pundits who think that — news flash! — this technology thing might be overhyped, The New York Times, 12 March 1998
“Andy Grove could stride down his company’s halls, bellowing ‘Make me a pyramid from the bones of my enemies!’ and have half a chance of tripping over it by sunset. (Intel is an investor in CNET: The Computer Network.)”
Michael Kanellos, a senior writer at Intel-funded CNET and someone who clearly knows who puts the butter on his bread, News.com, 5 March 1998
“Real business, real profit, I don’t derive that from Word like I did historically.”
Scott Baxter, president and chief executive officer of Weehawken, New Jersey, Internet service provider Icon CMT, on how his company’s new media ventures served their purpose for two and a half years, only to get unceremoniously shut down Monday, New York Times CyberTimes, 10 March 1998
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