Author: Matt

“I have a good memory. I have the equivalent of a Palm Pilot installed neurally.”

Open Source guru and Clue Train conductor Eric Raymond, who, despite his advanced, futuristic mind, appears to be in need of the popular 1MB Professional upgrade, The New York Times, 25 March 1999

“It was bittersweet in the sense of Netscape not existing as a company anymore and because of the layoffs.”

Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen, reflecting on his creation’s becoming a footnote in America Online’s corporate history, Washington Post, 25 March 1999

“Our worst nightmare as Libertarians is that we might have caused them to spend more money and hire more employees to monitor the public comment.”

Bill Winter, a Libertarian Party propagandist, expressing his dismay that the Internet might allow citizens to communicate directly with an effective and responsive government, The New York Times, 24 March 1999

“For so many years I was such a skeptic about the Web. But it’s a truly beautiful medium. You can retain a level of purity that you can’t achieve almost anywhere else.”

David Eggers, editor of McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, on the liberatory potentials of being ignored on the Net, as opposed to being ignored on a grocery store newsstand, Village Voice, 24 March 1999

“There are things we can do to extend the brand outside the realm of the Web site.”

Slate publisher Scott Moore, on plans to have Michael Kinsley find new media outlets to lose money in, ZDNN, 22 March 1999