2001: A STANDARDS ODYSSEY

“Next year, 2001, is the year of Bluetooth, so in reality it won’t be here for a year or two.”

Toshiba executive Steven Andler, on how the Bluetooth wireless standard is the technology of the future — always has been, always will be, News.com, 15 September 2000

IF SOMETHING STINKS, THAT’S MY STREET CRED BURNING

“I think it’s just as interesting to go to Burning Man as it is to go the Democratic convention. I have never been there, but I think that the art and culture of the digital revolution is a good place to be for Time.”

Time managing editor Walter Isaacson, on his plans to attend the geeks’ raucous caucus in the Nevada desert, Inside.com, 28 August 2000