Month: May 1998

“ZDTV is about changing the channel. It’s about a world where geek is chic.”

Ziff-Davis Chairman Eric Hippeau, speaking at tech TV channel ZDTV‘s launch party at San Francisco’s Concourse Exhibition Center, 13 May 1998

“Do you just want to talk about me? If all you want to talk about is me, I have better things to do.”

Apple CEO du jour Steve Jobs, responding to a reporter’s attempts to determine whether he was still going to be with the company when the product plans he’s rolling out come to fruition, San Jose Mercury News, 12 May 1998

“Last year the Internet became a real destination instead of a curiosity. It will soon be odd to say you don’t have a Web address. It will be like saying, ‘No, I haven’t installed any telephones.'”

Cathy Hotka, the National Retail Federation’s VP of information technology, on retailers’ warming embrace of the Internet, Miami Herald, 11 May 1998

“The question for Condé Nast is can they leave [Wired] alone, or will they force it into the mold of their other achingly hip, sweet-smelling, narcissistic magazines.”

Jon Katz, HotWired’s media critic, missing the obvious synergies in the sale of Wired magazine to Condé Nast, The New York Times, 11 May 1998

“An injunction delaying Windows 98 would clearly have a negative impact on the country as a whole.”

Compaq CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer, who’s secretly thrilled to pin his sales woes on the government instead of his lackluster products, speaking at Microsoft’s behest at a pro-Windows 98 corporate PR rally in New York, The New York Times, 6 May 1998