“No one is saying that our business — which by the way will leave us with a half-billion dollars in revenue from our subscription business alone — is a bad business. It’s just unprofitable.”
Excite@Home CEO George Bell, on his “profits, schmofits” philosophy of business, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 July 2000
“I don’t think human beings should have to deal with memory management at all, but it’s certainly not something you want to inflict on CS 101 students.”
Linux developer Eric S. Raymond, on his comp-sci for dummies curriculum, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2000
“The great thing about the early-’90s cyberculture was that we got to make it all up.”
Digital visionary (at least when he’s on the requisite hallucinogens) R.U. Sirius, on the challenges of tech journalism, San Francisco Bay Guardian, 5 July 2000
“I don’t think anybody can dominate the Internet; I might also argue that nobody really dominates the PC market, but I don’t want to get back into that view of history.”
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, embracing and extending the company’s antitrust legal strategy to its Internet efforts, News.com, 12 July 2000
“Napster does not copy files. It does not provide the technology for copying files.”
Napster CEO Hank Barry, trying to make his company’s turnkey, robust, end-to-end piracy solutions provision delivery technology seem much more useless than it in fact is, Wired News, 11 July 2000
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