KISS AND MAKE UP WITH YOUR BROWSER, PAUL — YOU NEED THE HITS

“We told you to kiss your browser goodbye. Maybe we should rephrase that.”

Paul Boutin, who was part of the push cabal behind Wired Digital’s ill-fated LiveWired project, taking the “er” out of “hacker,” Wired, March 1998

IN FACT, OUR CORE COMPETENCY IS MAKING MISTAKES

“There isn’t an Internet company in the world that’s going to fail because of mistakes — Internet companies make thousands of mistakes every week.”

Candice Carpenter, founder and CEO of iVillage, on how execution isn’t everything after all, Fast Company, February/March 1998