Month: July 1998

“The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.”

Sun CTO Bill Joy, on the earnings potential of Sun’s new ubiquitous networking technology, Jini, Wired News, 15 July 1998

“Maybe the band and I could just walk kind of herky-jerky in the club, and shuffle our feet a bit, to give the live audience the Internet experience.”

Victoria Williams, a performer scheduled to sing at next week’s Intel New York Music Festival, on overcoming Net broadcast problems caused by limited bandwidth, The New York Times, 16 July 1998

“Those of us who like postmodern ironic humor really appreciate the fact that the most successful e-commerce is the product that this medium was supposed to eliminate.”

Rick Ayre, a vice president at Amazon.com, on how, like, it’s all cool and junk that his company uses a Third Wave technology to sell a Second Wave product, The Washington Post, 10 July 1998

“We don’t have a history of doing large acquisitions.”

Bob Growney, Motorola’s president and chief operating officer, on the small-fry deal his company made to acquire pocket-sized organizer startup Starfish, ZDNet News/Reuters, 13 July 1998

“People are guaranteed to get results if they develop a Web site with the methods I propose. I am going to be a guiding light.”

Former Sun engineer-turned-consultant Jakob Nielsen, pitching his upcoming book on why Web designers should follow his old-school rules for software interfaces, New York Times CyberTimes, 13 July 1998