“We really don’t want to be the next Procter & Gamble.”
Amazon.com spokesperson Patty Smith, on an email rumor that Amazon was giving a cut of all sales to an anti-abortion site (when in fact, it was giving the site a cut of some sales), Wired News, 17 March 2000
“Student loans are a wonderfully cheap way to finance a startup.”
Harvard Business School student and entrepreneur Iggy Ioppe, on his plan for low-cost, if unethical, debt funding of his company, WaveMarket, The New York Times, 15 March 2000
“This was actually designed to exchange recipes.”
Tom Pepper, a product manager at AOL subsidiary Nullsoft, on the suitability of Nullsoft’s Gnutella software for doing things entirely unlike swapping MP3 song files, The Wall Street Journal, 14 March 2000
“Sun has always struggled with being an ethical innovator.”
Sun chief scientist Bill Joy, on his personal culpability in creating computers that may one day make humans irrelevant, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 March 2000
“The great thing about the Web is that it defies gravity. It’s not about me, it’s about creating inner connections.”
Gordon Paddison, New Line Cinema’s director of interactive media strategy, explaining why he’s been a bit too busy navelgazing to take his studio online, Wired News, 13 March 2000
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