“When I speak publicly, no matter what I say, no matter how much I bore you, I’m treated like this visionary.”
Red Hat CEO Bob Young, on how the Linux phenomenon has boosted him into the public eye, MSNBC, 15 November 1999
“When I speak publicly, no matter what I say, no matter how much I bore you, I’m treated like this visionary.”
Red Hat CEO Bob Young, on how the Linux phenomenon has boosted him into the public eye, MSNBC, 15 November 1999
“The Internet isn’t about transporting bits anymore.”
Ziff-Davis chairman Eric Hippeau, announcing a technological shift that will come as a surprise to network engineers everywhere, in his remarks before introducing keynote speaker Bill Gates, Comdex, 14 November 1999
“We made a decision to protect the integrity of our brand name.”
Edward Dolman, managing director of Christie’s Americas, on the decision to pull the plug on a soon-to-launch Web site for the auction house, The New York Times, 13 November 1999
“Don’t call us a dot-com. Our strategy is Lucy not-com.”
Lucy.com CEO Sue Levin, who’s exploiting the marketing potential of the Internet by sending out paper catalogs in the mail, The Wall Street Journal, 11 November 1999
“The better the relationship, the faster we can fix a problem.”
SAP CEO Hasso Plattner, on the German enterprise-software company’s strict no-whining rules for customers with troublesome installations, PC Week Online, 10 November 1999
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