WE PREACH TO THE CHOIR WHILE SINGING OFF-KEY

“Anyone with the talent and the cunning to make something really good, and then get people to look at it, is going to be successful.”

Word editor-in-chief Marisa Bowe, giving advice that would serve her own four-year-old, on-again-off-again Webzine well, Internet World, 1 August 1999

THINK OF US AS A SPEED BUMP

“Don’t think about us as a phone company anymore. Think of us as an on-ramp to the Internet.”

US West marketing VP Mike Rouleau, who should be happy people think about his company and its endangered local-phone monopoly at all, News.com, 2 August 1999