“Our recruiting efforts are much more focused than they have been in recent years and we have a better idea of our target audience.”
CIA spokesperson Anya Gilsher, on the agency’s efforts to turn geeks into spooks, Wired News, 26 October 1998
Author: Matt
In 2002 I started contributing to Open Source software, and life has just gotten better from there. Co-founder of WordPress, founder Automattic.
WE CREATED A MONSTER
“The era of the PC is over.”
IBM CEO Lou Gerstner, trying to put a stake in the heart of his company’s desktop Frankenstein so he can sell a few more servers, ZDNet/Reuters, 22 October 1998
BETTER HIRE A FOOD TASTER
“I have consciously avoided reading and getting involved in the politics so I could come in fresh and not be poisoned.”
Esther Dyson, technopundit and new appointee to the ICANN board, an organization meant to boost the self-esteem of people involved in domain-name governance, News.com, 21 October 1998
THEN WE MOVE THEM TO THE HARD DRUGS
“It starts with email. Then you get them interested in a buddy list, so they can find their friends and family.”
Barry Schuler, president of AOL Interactive Services, on America Online’s plans to get users hooked to its programming, The New York Times, 20 October 1998
WHO’S PIMPING WHOM?
“How much do we need to pay you to screw Netscape?”
Attributed to Microsoft chairman Bill Gates by an America Online executive in testimony for the Department of Justice’s antitrust case, as the companies were negotiating to have AOL use Microsoft Internet Explorer instead of Netscape’s Web browser in 1996, Wired News, 19 October 1998
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