“People get addicted to good email like they get addicted to good chocolate.”
Andy Brack, an Internet political consultant based in Charleston, South Carolina, describing how spam from politicians is really just giving the people what they want, The New York Times, 22 July 1998
“It’s a mistake to treat the Internet as an entertainment medium.”
Ed Bennett, former Prodigy executive and godfather of Stim, The Wall Street Journal, 20 July 1998
“Most consumers have a hard time differentiating between the browser, the ISP, and the content.”
Jennifer Bailey, Netscape’s senior vice president of marketing for its portal wannabe, Netcenter, News.com, 20 July 1998
“The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.”
Sun CTO Bill Joy, on the earnings potential of Sun’s new ubiquitous networking technology, Jini, Wired News, 15 July 1998
“Maybe the band and I could just walk kind of herky-jerky in the club, and shuffle our feet a bit, to give the live audience the Internet experience.”
Victoria Williams, a performer scheduled to sing at next week’s Intel New York Music Festival, on overcoming Net broadcast problems caused by limited bandwidth, The New York Times, 16 July 1998
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