“Excitement about new technologies and software justifies all our inactions…. We have become very, very lazy.”
Benetton photographer Oliviero Toscani, on the downside of point-and-click artistry, Wired News, 6 September 2001
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In 2002 I started contributing to Open Source software, and life has just gotten better from there. Co-founder of WordPress, founder Automattic.
THINKING INSIDE THE BOX
“Customers want more than just a hot box. What they want now is a solution.”
Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, on how her company’s merger with Compaq will help it overtake Danni Ashe in the hot-box market, InfoWorld, 4 September 2001
WE MUST ALL HANG TOGETHER, OR ASSUREDLY OUR PROGRAMS WILL HANG SEPARATELY
“Everyone says that working together is good. But somewhere, in their dark, little minds, they say, ‘I want to do this alone. I want to make millions.'”
Linus Torvalds, airing a lament about avaricious, selfish Linux coders, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 September 2001
I LOVE THE SMELL OF CASHFLOW IN THE MORNING
“I don’t get up in the morning and crunch numbers.”
Patti Hart, CEO of beleaguered broadband provider Excite@Home, on her distaste for accounting, including figuring out just how she’s going to repay a $100 million loan the company’s on the hook for, The New York Times, 2 September 2001
I WAS A DOT-COM GO-GO BOY
“It was a go-go time. We were hot. We could raise capital at will and had an opportunity to build something that couldn’t be duplicated.”
Former Excite@Home CEO Tom “T.J.” Jermoluk, on the rapid-fire buy-and-build strategy that led the company to its present straits, News.com, 31 August 2001
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