“These idiotic hoaxes [are] detrimental and I don’t think it’s right. I wish I knew who these people were. They definitely deserve to be reprimanded in some way.”
CSICOP public relations director Kevin Christopher, in need of special wartime powers to fight the threat of touristguy.com, Wired News, 19 November 2001
“The vernacular quickly spun out of my comprehension but there were phrases through the mass of chemical symbols and physics jargon that anyone could understand.”
Kabul correspondent Anthony Loyd, now known to have mistaken a popular Net parody left behind by Al Qaeda for real A-bomb instructions, The Times of London, 15 November 2001
“We’ve been doubling sales every 18 months. However, when you start from zero it takes a long while.”
Wyse marketing director Stephen Yeo tutors the new math for the new economy, ZDNet UK, 13 November 2001
“Most of the media … is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.”
H-P CEO Carly Fiorina, on how surprised she is to find that pissing off the founders’ heirs might seem like a story to some reporters, News.com, 15 November 2001
“We were fundamentally order-takers. No more.”
Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, on how the sudden absence of advertising orders has changed the firm’s behavior, News.com, 15 November 2001
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