Month: September 1999

“Everybody’s confused, including ourselves, about what we are. Are we a software company? An Internet company? A financial-services company? A portal? I get this all the time.”

Intuit CEO Bill Harris, explaining that despite his company’s identity crisis, he can’t get permission from the shareholders to go off on a two-year voyage of self-discovery in Nepal, The Industry Standard, 20 August 1999

“In 1982, you could diagram the whole Internet on one sheet of paper.”

MCI WorldCom vice president Vinton Cerf, remembering the roots of the Internet; he added later that packets then had to be pushed uphill both ways, through the snow, ZDNN, 31 August 1999