“The phones that people have today are not the phones that people will want to use in the XML generation.”
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, inventing an implausible demographic for his company’s software products, CNN.com, 22 March 2001
“The phones that people have today are not the phones that people will want to use in the XML generation.”
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, inventing an implausible demographic for his company’s software products, CNN.com, 22 March 2001
“What you typically do is perfect the store and once you perfect it, you start rolling it out. In this case we rolled it out and we perfected it later.”
Kozmo CEO Gerry Burdo, on the company’s retrenchment from its original nationwide ambitions, News.com, 21 March 2001
“As we all know by now, the Web didn’t rewrite all the rules. A free press has its costs.”
Salon.com chairman David Talbot, on the company’s hail-Mary plan to introduce a subscription fee for premium content to keep the site afloat, Salon.com, 20 March 2001
“If there’s a clear lesson, it’s the importance of focusing on communicating with employees.”
Steve Ramirez, former VP of marketing at the now-defunct Etown, a startup which foundered amidst charges of management interference in union-organizing efforts, Information Week, 19 March 2001
“When you look back on it, it’s kind of embarrassing. The question we all ask ourselves is, ‘How could we all be so stupid?'”
Sapient co-CEO Jerry Greenberg, on the e-consultancy’s sudden embrace of long-term thinking, Wired News, 16 March 2001
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