Month: January 1999

“Your digital television will become the centerpiece, at the nerve center of the home of the future.”

Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony Corp. of America, on the consumer electronics conglomerate’s initiative to promote home networking, ZDNN, 7 January 1999

“I’d like to think that Netscape is the company that helped open the doors to the Internet and made it fun to surf the Web.”

Early Netscape employee Mike McCool, on the once and future hipness of the soon-to-be subsidiary of AOL, CIO, 1 January 1999

“I’m here today because Apple has finally gotten its act together.”

Id Software cofounder John Carmack, on the game-friendly graphics features in the new Power Macintosh G3 that prompted his appearance at Apple iCEO Steve Jobs’ Macworld Expo keynote speech, Macintouch, 5 January 1998

“What Yosemite machines? We don’t talk about unannounced products. We like to talk about products when they are available and shipping.”

Apple spokesperson Russell Brady, displaying Cupertino’s new we’ll-take-our-iMacs-and-go-home attitude to the press, Wired News, 31 December 1998

“The investors in Amazon.com will make the tulip investors of the 17th century look like value investors.”

Rick Berry, a slightly bitter if historically aware stock analyst at J.P. Turner & Co., Seattle Times, 30 December 1998