“In our industry, regardless of whether you make educational software or a platform, you innovate or you die.”
Tod Nielsen, Microsoft’s geek-appeasement unit, giving the software industry an offer it can’t refuse, News.com, 15 September 1998
Month: September 1998
INSTANT OPINIONS — JUST ADD INTERNET!
“I believe we’re going to a political system in which there will be a series of pulses, where everyone in the nation will become interested in something, and they will all develop an opinion of it fairly quickly.”
Novell CEO Eric Schmidt, expounding on how in the Lewinsky era, the network is the tabloid newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, 14 September 1998
DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO
“Web authoring [should] be farmed out rather than going through a Webmaster. Even Adobe has that problem with our Web site.”
Adobe CEO John Warnock, offering up a vision sans product for his company’s feeble Web efforts, News.com, 14 September 1998
ALWAYS HAVE BEEN, ALWAYS WILL BE
“We continue to be very optimistic about our goals of reaching profitability by the end of next year.”
Feed cofounder Steven Johnson, offering praise of future cash for his less-edgy-every-day Webzine, Wired News, 10 September 1998
BUT THAT DOESN’T MAKE YOU MARTIN LUTHER
“Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry — he decides who’s going to build a PC.”
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, on the Catholic tendencies of his computing nemesis, News.com, 10 September 1998
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