“I’m just sort of looking for approval.”
Deposed Go.com ubergeek Patrick Naughton, testifying in his trial on charges of soliciting a minor online, ZDNN, 10 December 1999
Month: December 1999
MOM! THE GOVERNMENT’S HURTING OUR FEELINGS!
“I know it sounds wussy, but it hurts our feelings when we are accused of harming consumers.”
David Pritchard, a long-time Microsoft employee, on how even gargantuan stock options don’t salve the hurt of being laid with an antitrust guilt trip, Forbes.com, 9 December 1999
BUT WE THREW A PARTY ANYWAY
“We didn’t think it would be good for morale to have them just sitting around waiting for something to happen…. Where would you rather be than Microsoft on New Year’s Eve?”
Microsoft Y2K czar Don Jones, on the company’s emergency preparedness plans — he wouldn’t say if he had a contingency plan in case Steve Ballmer started dancing, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 December 1999
AND WHAT IS THE FATHER’S DOMAIN NAME?
“At the moment we are calling her jane.com.”
Greg Wise, husband of actress and new mother Emma Thompson, on the look-up procedure established for their bouncing baby Internet node, E Online, 6 December 1999
BLOOD IS THICKER THAN RED INK
“If there’s going to be cannibalization, I’d just as soon cannibalize myself.”
CompUSA CEO Jim Halpin, on the computer retailer’s plan to let its Cozone.com subsidiary gnaw CompUSA’s leg out of a retail pricing trap, Fortune, 20 December 1999 (issue date)
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