Month: November 1999

“Quoting megahertz was never part of Apple’s vision.”

Apple design chief Jonathan Ive, who’s apparently missed recent ads touting the G4 desktop’s supercomputer-like speeds, MacWeek.com, 14 November 1999

“Off the Internet, media companies take five to seven years to become profitable.”

iVillage CEO Candice Carpenter, who normally argues that most things happen much faster on the Internet, The New York Times, 21 November 1999

“Consumers are benefited by us being one focused company that tries to appropriately apply technology.”

Microsoft president Steve Ballmer, letting fly a trial balloon for a radical break from Microsoft’s past strategy, ZDNN, 19 November 1999

“[Bill Gates] is not a bad dancer, considering he doesn’t get a lot of chances to practice in public. And he knows everyone’s watching. How would you like it if everyone was watching you having fun?”

Trellix CTO Dan Bricklin, speculating on Bill Gates’s future career opportunities in the transparent society, The Washington Post, 17 November 1999

“One crucial issue for voters to ponder is this: Whose finger do you want on the ALT-CONTROL-DELETE button?”

U.S. vice president Al Gore, trying to sell himself to the tech crowd after his tour of Microsoft, Slate, 15 November 1999