“At Microsoft, the overhead of having meetings and building a consensus among a group of people is so high, I had to hire people just to manage the communication.”
Sabeer Bhatia, a Microsoft M&A executive who got assimilated along with his startup, Hotmail, earlier this year, The New York Times, 16 November 1998
“If you write all your new applications in Java, you can ignore the operating system…. We are not an operating systems company.”
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, arguing again for his company’s relevancy in a post-OS world, News.com, 13 November 1998
“There is a huge economy in Silicon Valley based on Microsoft.”
Heidi Roizen, a consultant to Microsoft on developer relations, The Seattle Times, 11 November 1998
“It slows down communication if everybody is stopping and thinking about what they write. It’s chilling. I don’t like it.”
@Home CEO Tom Jermoluk, on the evils of actually putting thought into emails one writes, The New York Times, 11 November 1998
“Intel was wasting its money by writing low-quality software that created incompatibilities for users.”
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, describing how Intel treaded on his company’s exclusive turf, News.com, 9 November 1998
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