Month: September 1999

“Can you say, ‘MarketWatch on MTV’?”

CBS MarketWatch editor-in-chief Thom Calandra, musing on the no-doubt certain appeal of hard-core financial reporting to Beavis and Butthead, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 September 1999

“This is network computing 2.0. We’ve learned a lot in the last two years.”

Sun Microsystems president Ed Zander, on why the new Sun Ray terminal stands a chance of finding customers, unlike the earlier JavaStation, The New York Times, 8 September 1999

“For us, the Internet is not an add-on — it’s a major, giant new growth business.”

Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone, on his designs for the Web after he merges his Net-clueless media company with CBS, another Net-clueless media company, News.com, 7 September 1999

“I’m in the security business, and the security business is the business of paranoia.”

Cryptonym chief scientist Andrew Fernandes, explaining the connection between taunting Microsoft about a newly discovered Windows security hole and maximizing shareholder value, ZDNN, 3 September 1999

“We are going to do fewer things very well.”

Microsoft president Steve Ballmer, announcing new MSN chief Rick Belluzzo’s plans to make a network of lackluster sites even more lackluster, USA Today, 3 September 1999