“If someone’s interested in Qwest, I’ll be the last to know.”
Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio, on his due-diligence approach to potential buyers of his upstart telco, ZDNN, 8 October 1999
Month: October 1999
IT’S A CROSS BETWEEN A DEBTOR’S PRISON AND A LUXURY SPA
“We began to think of our clients as a community and this [credit card] is their community membership card.”
Merrill Lynch vice chairman John L. Steffens, on his firm’s philosophical shift from trade-till-you’re-paid to shop-till-you-drop, The New York Times, 8 October 1999
BUT IT MAKES ONE HELL OF A FLOOR WAX
“Open source [is] not a cure for world hunger.”
Linus Torvalds, the father of open-source operating system Linux, on the uses of massively distributed code development, News.com, 6 October 1999
T1 AND JAM
“Nobody wants a phone that toasts bread.”
Mitchell Kertzman, CEO of set-top box software maker Liberate Technologies, on the prospects of the multifunction, cross-platform widget market, CNN.com/IDG.net, 4 October 1999
BUT MY PALMPILOT WON’T MAKE THAT “KA-CHING” SOUND
“If customers are in the car and they hear a song they like, they can look it up and purchase it. In our mind, this is a cash register in every pocket.”
Warren Adams, director of product development at Amazon.com, on the Palm VII’s wireless e-commerce links to the giant online store, The New York Times, 4 October 1999
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