Month: August 1998

“If you want people to take out the garbage, you have to pay them. You don’t have to do that to get people to program.”

Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, on what drives Linux’s authors to create and distribute an operating system for free, Forbes, 10 August 1998

“We believe the company has a real shot at some day becoming the most respected, and most valuable, company on earth.”

America Online CEO Steve Case, getting a bit giddy in announcing his company’s fourth-quarter results, Wired News, 4 August 1998

“There is no killer app. It’s just Windows.”

J. Allard, general manager of Microsoft’s Internet software unit and master of strategic understatement, making friends at the Department of Justice left and right, The New York Times, 6 August 1998

“We have not done a good job of taking advantage of our customers.”

Scott Cook, chairman of financial software maker Intuit’s executive committee, on his company’s strategy to boost the revenues it skims off users’ digital checkbooks, TheStreet.com, 4 August 1998 (paid subscription required)

“We think of ourselves as journalists first and then as people who can adapt to the potential of this medium.”

Bob Arnold, editor of Business Week Online, on how writing for the Web is like writing for print, only more so, The New York Times, 3 August 1998