Month: April 1998

“It’s a volatile issue and I think it will remain volatile but I do feel encouraged and I do think that if you sort of focus on the substance as opposed to emotion there’s a lot more agreement than there is a disagreement and I think the areas of disagreement should be resolvable.”

Ira Magaziner, President Clinton’s Internet czar, on the restless peons who oppose the U.S. government’s proposal for reforming the registration of domain names, The New York Times, 1 April 1998

“It’s not enough just to have a product that works on the Internet. We want companies that truly are interested in knitting this whole Web thing together.”

Clarence Madison, founder of way new venture capital firm New World Associates whose resemblance to photographer Bart Nagel is downright uncanny, expounding on his theory that the whole world is a computer to any fool who will listen, The Red Herring, 1 April 1998