Month: January 2001

“I’m an Internet guy and the Internet space is incredible and there are awesome things to do out there. I just want to go do some of them.”

Bill Maggs, ex-CTO of Palm, on his short tenure at the handheld maker, The Wall Street Journal, 17 January 2001

“There is so much music that is locked in the vaults because the recording industry is protecting their current interests. And that is going to leave a huge historical void in the art and culture of the 20th century.”

Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow, on the music industry’s tragedy of the uncommon, Wired News, 16 January 2001

“The easiest way to mediate debates that have inflamed passions is to keep people focused on technical objectives.”

Newly appointed ICANN chairman Vint Cerf, on his plans to mediate domain-name disputes with copious RFCs, USA Today, 15 January 2001

“Microsoft is very uncertain about its future business model. Their future business model is totally in danger.”

Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei, who might be a tad peeved that Microsoft is adopting his business model by introducing its Xbox game console, quoted in World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies, The Register, 12 January 2001

“Most people, I think, will actually be creating their own content from iMovie or FinalCut Pro and making a disk with it. If people can create content illegally from other sources, that’s certainly nothing we encourage.”

Phil Schiller, Apple’s vice president of worldwide product marketing, on projected uses of the company’s new computers with recordable DVD drives, San Jose Mercury News