Author: Matt

“I don’t dream of IPO day. Money is not my measure of success. I want my epitaph to read: ‘He made a cultural impact.'”

Editor-in-chief David Talbot, on his high hopes for Salon Magazine’s make-no-waves journalism, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 1998

“There’s a big opportunity for something that’s a little more adult [than AOL].”

Longtime America Online exec Audrey Weil, who was recently booted to the backwaters to serve as AOL subsidiary CompuServe’s chief operating officer, on innovative business plans to revive the also-ran online service, The Wall Street Journal, 29 June 1998

“The thought that AT&T or TCI will become a dumb pipe and turn over the portal service to AOL is just ridiculous.”

Tom Jermoluk, chairman of @Home, who’s been taking notes from his new owners on how to dominate the market for broadband access by being an unresponsive monopoly, The New York Times, 29 June 1998

“I’ve never had a customer mention Linux to me.”

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates, displaying his familiarity with his freeware competition at a Windows 98 launch event in San Francisco, PC Week, 25 June 1998

“Would you like to order Viagra while you’re watching your favorite entertainment show? Push, point, and click.”

John Malone, outgoing CEO of Tele-Communications Inc., on the supposed virtues of PC-TV convergence made possible by the merger of TCI with AT&T, News.com, 24 June 1998