Month: January 2000

“There are a lot of cooks onstage here. But there’s a big meal to be served.”

Steve Case, chairman of newly formed media giant AOL Time Warner, on the prospects of an executive food fight at the merged company, The Industry Standard, 10 January 2000

“If I could embed a locator chip in my kids, I would. Who knows where their kids are all the time?”

Sun CEO Scott McNealy, who always forgets that people who live in transparent societies shouldn’t throw stones, News.com, 7 January 2000

“[While] the past years have meant more to me than I can easily articulate, I would like once again to lead an independent organization.”

Historically mendacious Lotus CEO Jeff Papows, on his resignation from the IBM software unit after a year that saw his fabricated resume exposed, ZDNN, 6 January 2000

“I’m keeping the ‘i’ to remind us of what’s really important — the Internet.”

Apple iCEO Steve Jobs, who announced at his Macworld keynote that the “i” in his title doesn’t stand for “interim” anymore, Macworld Expo, 5 January 2000

“In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident.”

Cyberpunk novelist Bruce Sterling, on the largest random creation of wealth on the planet currently happening in Silicon Valley, Bespoke.org, 3 January 2000