“We have not changed our merger plans based on the economy.”
Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, on executing her company’s unloved merger with rival Compaq in a vacuum, Forbes.com, 3 October 2001
“We have not changed our merger plans based on the economy.”
Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, on executing her company’s unloved merger with rival Compaq in a vacuum, Forbes.com, 3 October 2001
“There was a notion that a company could be built that would serve the complex technology and backbone systems to a group of cable operators and participate in the economics…. But there’s no real reward.”
Will Hearst, venture capitalist and @Home’s founding CEO, on the company’s penniless demise after selling its network to AT&T, News.com, 28 September 2001
“Overendowing high-tech solutions is riskful in the absence of adequate understanding of the limitations of the technology and the frailties and perversities of human nature.”
SRI scientist Peter Neumann, on the dangers of relying on technology to prevent terrorism when humans are naughty by nature, The New York Times, 27 September 2001