Month: April 1998

“Don’t ask me why people out there fix my bugs for me, but people love to do it.”

Jim Barksdale, Netscape CEO, on the success of his company’s Mozilla open-source browser program in getting outsiders to fix errors his coders could never be bothered to correct, TechWeb, 22 April 1998

“At the end of the day, ICC is really a holding company. What’s really important is that they are a publicly traded firm that gives us the capital to grow into other markets.”

Glenn Meyers, founder and CEO of “Internet solutions” company Rare Medium, on its acquisition by ICC Technologies, a maker of humidity control systems, New York Times CyberTimes, 22 April 1998

“By making our entire front page personalizable … we feel that we have set ourselves apart by integrating what the user wants.”

Joe Kraus, senior vice president and cofounder of overvalued Web portal Excite, the market leader in me-too-ism, Wired News, 17 April 1998

“I have yet to pinpoint exactly what that particular problem was. Probably some type of hardware or software or combination of that type of problem.”

Frank Ianna, AT&T’s executive vice president of network and computing services, reassuring Ma Bell’s frame relay customers that the company really has a grip on what caused a 20-hour breakdown in service, conference call transcript, 14 April 1998

“HTML text is really a catastrophe. It’s perfect for information delivery, but for actual design it’s terrible for designers.”

Halle Winkler, a San Francisco-based designer, reminding us that design isn’t about communication, it’s about design, New York Times CyberTimes, 15 April 1998