Month: May 2000

“There are going to be Metallica CD burnings if they try this.”

Rob Jones, founder of heavy metal Web site KNAC.com, on Metallica’s demand that 355,000 fans stop offering up Metallica tracks for others to download on Napster, The New York Times, 3 May 2000

“You can argue that I’ve have been acting CTO over desktops for a while, you know coming from a technology background and driving a lot of initiatives and things like that. Now I will be playing that role formally across all of our business units.””

Newly minted Intel chief technology officer Pat Gelsinger on his new role, skipping over the fact that his technology background consists of working as a technician on the 80286 chip, PC Week Online, 27 April 2000

“If you mix the chain letter or Ponzi scheme with something like the Internet, you mix something very bad with something very good. But if you mix raisins with turds, you still have turds.”

Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman Charlie Munger, on his tech-averse portfolio diversification strategy, TheStreet.com, 29 April 2000