“I like to say that Silicon Valley has perfected many of the principles laid out by Karl Marx. In his terms, workers control the means of production. In our terms, every employee is an owner of the company.”
Jerry Kaplan, founder and CEO of online auction house Onsale, describing scenes from the class struggle in Sunnyvale, The New York Times, 8 September 1998
“People talk about an Internet community, but that’s not a community to my mind. Community doesn’t happen until you smell people.”
Larry Harvey, founder of the Burning Man festival, on the bonding force of primitive sanitation, ZDNN, 6 September 1998
“Anyone who gets online eventually has to ask themselves if it’s enriching their lives or taking away from other things, particularly if what you want is a network of people.”
Gail Williams, conferencing manager of the Well, responding to a study that contends time spent online makes people sadder, Wired News, 2 September 1998
“I feel the Internet is going to become commercialized and there’s nothing that can be done to stop it. What corporations can do is minimize the annoyance.”
Bernard Ferguson, CEO of the Pop-Up Exchange ad network, which allows Web sites to add grating ads that appear in their own windows, offering a compelling reason why his company should not exist, News.com, 31 August 1998
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