CLICK TRAILS ARE SO MUCH LESS SCARY THAN TRACK MARKS

“I don’t consider myself a junkie. I’ve built a homepage on Tripod and read a few message boards in the Delphi forums.”

Mark Gimein, admitting he has a problem with community sites in the pages of The Industry Standard, 1 February 1999

DEATH OF MICROSOFT, FILM AT 11

“We make very good software, but we didn’t make a very good tape.”

Microsoft general counsel William Neukom, fumbling to explain his legal team’s botched production of evidence meant to support its antitrust case, Seattle Times, 4 February 1999

TOO BAD YOU’RE NOT IN THE CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS

“I have a hard time with the concept of the virtual corporation, because it might lead to virtual profits. I prefer the concrete corporation leading to concrete profits.”

Sun CEO Scott McNealy, on the business plan of his druthers, News.com, 1 February 1999

PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES SHOULDN’T LAY CONDUIT

“I see a lot of glass going into the ground … but I don’t see it getting to the houses.”

Senator Conrad Burns (R.-56kbps), bemoaning the lack of broadband connections going to his constituents (so he can ignore their email faster, one supposes), Wired News, 29 January 1999