Month: November 2001

“Wired wasn’t a technology magazine. It never covered feeds and speeds. It covered the digital revolution.”

Wired founder Louis Rossetto, whose successors, now employed by Conde Nast, could stand to have their memories jogged, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 November 2001

“In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the ’90s.”

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, on the bumpy road ahead, Wired News, 13 November 2001

“Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home.”

AOL Time Warner chairman Steve Case, on a recently struck alliance with Sony to ease the installation of home networks, News.com, 12 November 2001

“I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers.”

Random House spokesman Thomas Perry, on the shuttering of @Random, the publisher’s e-book imprint, The New York Times, 9 November 2001

“Really, the reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that’s identical with millions and millions of machines.”

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, on how he takes full credit for creating his own worst nightmare, Seattle Times, 8 November 2001