Month: April 2001

“If you look at class-action lawsuits, you’d be hard pressed to find a company who doesn’t have one. Nike, Oracle, AT&T, you pick the company.”

Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, associating his brand with companies that export labor overseas, hire private investigators to dig through trash, and don’t care because they’re the phone company, The Industry Standard, 11 April 2001

“When I came to NBCi, I had a number of job options. The employment contract I entered into with NBCi reflected the level of compensation I would get in alternative jobs.”

NBCi CEO Will Lansing, on his multimillion-dollar compensation package, which includes a $4 million loan that NBC’s ill-fated portal plans to forgive, despite the complete, ignominious collapse of its business, TheStreet.com, 9 April 2001

“We’re hard and fast on being the largest enabler of commerce on the Web. We have chosen to offer adult-oriented content as part of that.”

Yahoo president Jeff Mallett, promising bigger, better action at the portal’s relaunched porn store, News.com, 11 April 2001

“Whatever mental voice you hear when you read The Economist, it’s not mine. My voice is actually much closer to Wired. By the time it got through the sausage machine, it may have sounded like it was written by a 50-year-old man, but it didn’t start out that way.”

Newly appointed Wired editor Chris Anderson, who, at 39, was just a decade or so ahead of his time at his last job, Wired News, 11 April 2001

“Most CIOs will tell you they don’t want any barefoot, navel-pierced hippies messing around with their databases.”

Wheelhouse chairman Frank Ingari, who hasn’t been briefed on Linux programmers’ penchant for Birkenstocks, The Wall Street Journal, 9 April 2001