“We’re just at the beginning of a phase that I guess you could call the ‘rational phase’ that was due to arise at some point. This is the phase where people are asking, ‘What does it have to do with profit?'”
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, on the pesky questions people might be asking about Microsoft’s red-ink-stained Internet ventures, Wired News, 24 May 2000
“It was probably a mistake to have blamed Windows 2000.”
Novell CEO Eric Schmidt, who ignored strategic advice from his executive team to blame faltering profits on “the rain,” Financial Times, 23 May 2000
“We don’t have any interest in litigating our way through the Internet.”
Recording Industry Association of America president Hilary Rosen, on her organization’s all-bark-no-bite legal strategy against online trading of MP3s, The New York Times, 22 May 2000
“I have come to believe that if anything will bring about the downfall of a company, or maybe even a country, it is blind copies of e-mails that should never have been sent in the first place.”
Disney chairman Michael Eisner, on the woes brought by email to corporate America, San Jose Mercury News, 19 May 2000
“It’s just a hunch, but I think this Internet stuff is going to be big. I want to get in on it before anyone else hears about it.”
Fired Details editor Mark Golin, stealing lines from William Shatner as he talks up his new job at AOL’s Moviefone.com subsidiary, New York Post, 17 May 2000
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