“Most email messages are confusing; people don’t spend enough time organizing their thoughts.”
Chris Higgins, a BankAmerica senior vice president charged with managing software projects, taking a Luddite’s pride in making his programmers give him handwritten notes, Fast Company, June/July 1998
“I wouldn’t mind if we sounded like Sports Illustrated.”
Dave Kansas, editor-in-chief of testosterone-addled financial news site TheStreet.com, Wired News, 7 July 1998
“The Internet people don’t want to know about marine protein, and marine protein people don’t want to know about the Internet.”
Zapata Corporation CEO Avram Glazer, the fish-meal mogul intent on buying a Net empire, laying out the rationale for spinning off his Internet concerns as a new company, The New York Times, 6 July 1998
“All the net worth in the world isn’t worth anything if I’m not happy and don’t like what I’m doing.”
Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang, whose shares in the dull-as-dirt Net directory are worth almost one billion dollars on paper, USA Today, 2 July 1998
“We’re not responsible, but we’re responsive.”
GeoCities CEO Thomas Evans, explaining how his company deserves credit for being swift to duck the blame for the content users put up on its Web pages, Village Voice, 2 July 1998
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