“Our site is a large, complex system. Occasionally, it has hiccups — and it hiccuped.”
Amazon.com spokesman Bill Curry, on his company’s 36-minute blackout (which was accompanied by feelings of lightheadedness and nausea), News.com, 15 July 1999
“Our site is a large, complex system. Occasionally, it has hiccups — and it hiccuped.”
Amazon.com spokesman Bill Curry, on his company’s 36-minute blackout (which was accompanied by feelings of lightheadedness and nausea), News.com, 15 July 1999
“We’re not a primary content provider, but we can do a lot at a meta level to make it easy for people to find what they want when they want it, essentially creating compound or aggregated media properties.”
RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser, compounding confusion about what his company actually does, Upside, 16 July 1999 (issue date)
“There is a downloading revolution that is occurring. For a lot of reasons, music is the obvious beneficiary.”
Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin, on the merger of music club Columbia House with e-commerce runner-up CDnow, Wired News, 13 July 1999
“Customers don’t have a single relationship. The Internet is not going to change that.”
Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, on how deep down, we’re all media whores, BusinessWeek Online, 12 July 1999
“We have something to learn from [hackers]…. I want to get to know the hacker community better. These people are America’s future.”
Jeffrey Hunker, infrastructure guru for the National Security Council, on how he plans to take tips from the Def Con hacker gathering (which recently had its own Web site hacked), The New York Times, 12 July 1999
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