Month: April 1999

“The microprocessor business and the Internet business are the same thing.”

Sean Maloney, Intel’s senior vice president for worldwide sales and marketing, pointing out that the semiconductor industry’s slumping profits can be traced to their transformation from manufacturing businesses to money-losing portal sites, News.com, 16 April 1999

“Look at the doom and gloom out there in PC land. Apple dances to its own tune, and it’s a happy tune. At some point, you’ve got to believe.”

Charles Wolf, an analyst at Wall Street firm Warburg Dillon Read, on the mind-altering effects of Apple’s resurgent profits, The New York Times, 15 April 1999

“I’m of the belief that you don’t want to talk to your refrigerator.”

Intel chairman Andy Grove, on the reasons his company has sunk millions of dollars into home networking technologies, News.com, 14 April 1999

“The economy of the search engines, on which Wall Street has staked billions of dollars, is sort of based on this obsessive behavior.”

Marita Sturken, a USC professor and student of popular culture, on how surfers browsing for Pamela Anderson Lee are the hidden engine of the Net economy, ZDNN/WSJ Interactive, 13 April 1999

“We want to make rules because MP3 is already making a market.”

Fujio Noguchi, a producer at Sony’s Creative Project Office, on plans to build a Netman player prompted by his employer’s newfound ability to hear the MP3 drumbeat, PC World Online, 8 April 1999