“Web authoring [should] be farmed out rather than going through a Webmaster. Even Adobe has that problem with our Web site.”
Adobe CEO John Warnock, offering up a vision sans product for his company’s feeble Web efforts, News.com, 14 September 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.
ALWAYS HAVE BEEN, ALWAYS WILL BE
“We continue to be very optimistic about our goals of reaching profitability by the end of next year.”
Feed cofounder Steven Johnson, offering praise of future cash for his less-edgy-every-day Webzine, Wired News, 10 September 1998
BUT THAT DOESN’T MAKE YOU MARTIN LUTHER
“Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry — he decides who’s going to build a PC.”
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, on the Catholic tendencies of his computing nemesis, News.com, 10 September 1998
WORKERS OF THE WORLD, EXERCISE YOUR OPTIONS
“I like to say that Silicon Valley has perfected many of the principles laid out by Karl Marx. In his terms, workers control the means of production. In our terms, every employee is an owner of the company.”
Jerry Kaplan, founder and CEO of online auction house Onsale, describing scenes from the class struggle in Sunnyvale, The New York Times, 8 September 1998
SO WE STOPPED CLEANING THE PORTA-POTTIES
“People talk about an Internet community, but that’s not a community to my mind. Community doesn’t happen until you smell people.”
Larry Harvey, founder of the Burning Man festival, on the bonding force of primitive sanitation, ZDNN, 6 September 1998
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