“There always will be a certain amount of piracy and we can live with that. We see litigation as a last resort. We’re not going to sue our way through the Internet.”
RIAA lawyer Amy Weiss, on the difficulty of quashing will-o’-the-wisp file-sharing networks that trade in copyrighted music, SiliconValley.com, 4 September 2001
“Excitement about new technologies and software justifies all our inactions…. We have become very, very lazy.”
Benetton photographer Oliviero Toscani, on the downside of point-and-click artistry, Wired News, 6 September 2001
“Customers want more than just a hot box. What they want now is a solution.”
Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, on how her company’s merger with Compaq will help it overtake Danni Ashe in the hot-box market, InfoWorld, 4 September 2001
“Everyone says that working together is good. But somewhere, in their dark, little minds, they say, ‘I want to do this alone. I want to make millions.'”
Linus Torvalds, airing a lament about avaricious, selfish Linux coders, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 September 2001
“I don’t get up in the morning and crunch numbers.”
Patti Hart, CEO of beleaguered broadband provider Excite@Home, on her distaste for accounting, including figuring out just how she’s going to repay a $100 million loan the company’s on the hook for, The New York Times, 2 September 2001
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