Month: September 1998

“The original Internet was handed over to commercial interests — not that that was a bad thing. In fact, it worked too well…. We won’t give the network away this time.”

Terry Rogers, director of the Abilene project, an academe-sponsored next-generation Internet, on how he intends to avoid success, The Industry Standard, 29 September 1998

“I think it’s very difficult for a traditional bank to finance a company that is not cash-flow positive.”

Stacy Carlson, a branch director of Imperial Bank in northern Virginia, on the art of making loans to unprofitable startups, The Washington Post, 28 September 1998

“My job is not to compete with Microsoft. It’s to lower the value of the operating system market.”

Bob Young, CEO of Linux vendor Red Hat Systems, on his strategy to decrease shareholder value, The New York Times, 28 September 1998

“We could make a computer look like a grapefruit.”

Jonathan Ive, Apple’s vice president of industrial design, on the conceptual roads not taken by the iMac team, CNN/IDG.net, 22 September 1998

“Our site takes topics like nudity and sex and puts new life into them.”

Genevieve Field, executive editor not of the Starr Report, but of Nerve.com, a “literate smut” site, Wired News, 24 September 1998