“I wouldn’t be here today without Al Gore having done what he did.”
Loudcloud chairman Marc Andreessen, identifying Al Gore as the inspiration he needed to claim Netscape as his personal creation, Wired News, 17 October 2000
Month: October 2000
AND THEN THE LITTLE CHILD SUBMITTED AN RFC TO THE IETF
“It takes some technical savvy to look at something and say, ‘This emperor has no clothes.'”
Newly elected ICANN director Karl Auerbach, on his plans to use SNMP (the Simple Naked Monarch Protocol) to point out clothes-deficient domain-name policies, Salon.com, 16 October 2000
BUT IT JUST MAY BE A LUNATIC YOU’RE LOOKING FOR
“It’s not a sane business environment when you decide that your primary competitive tool is lawyers.”
Microsoft Europe chairman Bernard Vergnes, on the company’s legal strategy of hiring worst-of-breed solicitors, ZDNN, 13 October 2000
SPECIFICALLY, WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT WHEN INVESTMENT WILL RETURN
“The era of trickle-down investing is over…. We have to use self-generated cash to pay for our advertising and our infrastructure. We have to worry about return and about investment.”
Intel chairman Andy Grove, on Intel’s new don’t-call-us-we’ll-call-you approach to venture capital, News.com, 12 October 2000
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