“I was the first person to see that the Internet would be the greatest information medium of all time.”
Internet.com chairman Alan Meckler, who started an Internet-oriented newsletter for librarians a full three years after Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, and well after Net visionaries like Jon Postel and Vint Cerf realized the potential of the Internet for information exchange, CBS MarketWatch, 11 October 1999
“If someone’s interested in Qwest, I’ll be the last to know.”
Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio, on his due-diligence approach to potential buyers of his upstart telco, ZDNN, 8 October 1999
“We began to think of our clients as a community and this [credit card] is their community membership card.”
Merrill Lynch vice chairman John L. Steffens, on his firm’s philosophical shift from trade-till-you’re-paid to shop-till-you-drop, The New York Times, 8 October 1999
“Open source [is] not a cure for world hunger.”
Linus Torvalds, the father of open-source operating system Linux, on the uses of massively distributed code development, News.com, 6 October 1999
“Nobody wants a phone that toasts bread.”
Mitchell Kertzman, CEO of set-top box software maker Liberate Technologies, on the prospects of the multifunction, cross-platform widget market, CNN.com/IDG.net, 4 October 1999
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