“We don’t see any further investments in the Internet.”
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, groping his way through the market after watching his investment in Priceline burn up, News.com, 16 November 2000
Archive for November, 2000
IN THE MARKET OF THE BLIND, THE ONE-EYED INVESTOR IS KING
November 16, 2000DON’T MAKE ME COME OVER THERE AND REDESIGN YOUR FACE
November 15, 2000“In the future, first of all, websites will be designed by my guidelines … for the simple reason that if they don’t, they are dead.”
Usability enforcer Jakob Nielsen, making website designers an offer they can’t refuse, Wired News, 15 November 2000
JOB SECURITY: TOO CLOSE TO CALL
November 14, 2000“Do CEOs get to ask for a recount?”
Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, delivering a keynote at Comdex after the final count revealed the company missed expected earnings by almost $200 million this quarter, ZDNN, 13 November 2000
IS THAT WHAT YOU MEAN BY “THICK CLIENT”?
November 13, 2000“Some people have had the mistaken notion that in order to make the server smarter, you need to make the client dumber.”
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, defining dumbness down in defending his decades-old vision of client-server technology, News.com, 13 November 2000
THEMAN.COM IN FULL
November 10, 2000“For the past nine months, I got a chance to see from ground zero an industry at its peak, and then to see it after the bubble burst, and as the bubble was bursting. Tom Wolfe would have killed to have my job.”
Unemployed journalist Ty Wenger, bubbling over about his experiences as executive editor of now-bankrupt startup TheMan.com, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 November 2000
